Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connecticut college got a new president last week. When they heard the news, the students of small, liberal Wesleyan, in Middletown, took 39-year-old Victor Lloyd Butterfield on their shoulders and carried him up College Hill. He succeeds able, popular James L. McConaughy, who resigned last April to continue as president of United China Relief...
President Butterfield is the energetic son of the late Kenyon L. Butterfield. who was president of Rhode Island State College, Massachusetts State College and Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Wesleyan's new head was formerly the college's associate dean and acting president. Despite his own training at Cornell (B.A. 1927) and Harvard (Ph. D. 1936), he is a devoted small-college man. He believes that institutions of Wesleyan's size (about 700 students in peacetime) supply a social education that the big university has "tended to blot out." Says he: "We must . . . provide...
...TIME's top editors today, and we have 14 other Yale men with us now. But we are also indebted to some 50 other Eastern colleges for members of our staff-Columbia (21), Harvard (18), Princeton (6), Dartmouth (5), Pennsylvania (3), Brown (3), Swarthmore (3), Cornell (3)- Williams, Wesleyan, Trinity, Johns Hopkins, Penn State and M.I.T., to name only...
...more ways than mere mental training. Chaplain Wilson's education was a preparation for his work in the Army, having worked his way through Illinois Wesleyan receiving his A.R. in '26. He graduated from North Western in '29 with the B.D. degree. Although but 20 years old, he was appointed a student Pastor and discharged these duties with great credit during his Junior and Senior years at College and the entire term of his Seminary studies. Upon graduation he immediately plunged into the active ministry, holding several Pastorates in Illinois. It was during this period that Chaplain Wilson married...
...Ohio Wesleyan University, Henry Wallace warned that unless the western democracies and Russia got together, there would soon be a World...