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...hard, just, God-fearing man is Abram Kean. A devout Wesleyan Methodist, he neither drinks nor swears. Even if pious Newfoundland's law did not forbid it, he would no more think of letting one of his "swilers" (sealers) crack a seal's skull on Sunday than he would think of failing to impose a 10? fine for any cut or tear in a seal "sculp" (fat-lined pelt) one of them brought in. He got his first schooling after he was 25 and rose to be Minister of Marine & Fisheries in his country's Cabinet. Three...
...association is not yet sure of the definite membership of the New England league, which was newly on Saturday, but reliable sources indicate it will include Harvard Yale Brown. Dartmouth. M.I.T., Springfield Tufts, Mass, State. Connections State Amherst, Williams as well as Wesleyan...
After journeying north for six consecutive years to be whaled by New York University, little West Virginia Wesleyan turned tables. A 200-lb. fullback named Len Barnum punched the ball to N. Y. U.'s 8-yd. line in the last period, kicked the winning field goal...
President James" Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), expounded a "recovery code" for colleges to his students, with a six-day week and a minimum 40 hr. of work...
...William Seaver Woods, minister's son, onetime editor of the Wesleyan Literary Monthly, became editor of the Literary Digest. In the same year Arthur Stimson Draper was graduated from New York University, where he had been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit...