Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter the students of Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.) placarded their campus: "We want Meiklejohn." They meant Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, revolutionary deposed President of Amherst College. They wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for President of Knox to succeed Dr. James L. McConaughy who last January shifted to the chair of Wesleyan University (TIME, Dec. 29). They thought Dr. Meiklejohn and his liberalism were "indispensable." But Dr. Meiklejohn was planning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept. 15) and the students' placards faded, wilted...
...this list there should certainly have been added the name of Cloyd H. Marvin, stocky, dynamic onetime aviator, who undertook the presidency of the University of Arizona three years ago at the age of 33. † Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston, History Professor of Wesleyan University, also qualifies; a fortnight ago, the day before his 36th birthday, he was elected President of Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis.). Also Dr. Charles C. Mierow, 42, from...
...Iowa Wesleyan College...
...George A. Creitz Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, Pa.), $1,000; William M. Ryan, St. Edward's University (Austin, Tex.), $500; Edward F. Barrett Jr., Canisius College (Buffalo), $450; Jack P. McGuire, University of Oregon, $400; J. Duane Squires, University of North Dakota, $350; Clarence McLean Gifford, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn...
Charles Morphy Meyers, Grinnell College, Grinnell, In., History; George Allen Morgan Jr., Emory University, Pulaskn Tenn., Philosophy; John Oddy, Wesleyan University, Conn., Skowhegan, Me., History; John Miller Pratt, Allegheny College, Pittsburgh, Pa., English; Morris Herman Price, Centre College, Paris, Ky., English; Joseph Reese Strayer, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., History; Tillman Grow Titus, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Physics; Austin Wright, Haverford College, Bedford, Pa., English, Harold Whiting Cary, Williams College, Williamstown, History; Joseph Homer Ford, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., History and Government; Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., History...