Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There must be heroes. The people crave a new "Red" Grange. None has turned up. This year there are Myles Lane at Dartmouth, Bruce Caldwell at Yale, Oosterbaan at Michigan, Wilson at West Point, Flanagan at Notre Dame, Drury at Southern California and others. But no one at whom the mob may scream: "Long Live the King"; not one yet good enough to get a cinema contract...
Professor Andrew Fleming West, twinkle-eyed creator and dean of the Princeton Graduate Schoo last week closed his academic work. He will be 75 years old next May and has been in ill health for a long time...
...Dean West's great achievement at Princeton was his founding the graduate school there in 1901. AS he wrote to Princeton trustees: "It was the policy of the university from the start to abandon the idea of a great number of graduate students and to plan the entire work on the basis of quality rather than quantity. ... A company of picked graduate students of moderate number and high scholarly promise was what was necessary in order that Princeton should make a really distinguished contribution to the higher teaching and scholarship of our country...
Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton, wanted the graduate school, which was originally called "Merwick" in the English fashion, to be a component part of the university. Dean West besought the trustees to establish it as an independent institution. Dean West won, so far as the location of the school was concerned. Cleveland Tower stands on an eminence half a mile from Nassau Hall. But the name "Merwick" was dropped and the Princeton Graduate School is subject today to the faculty, trustees and president of Princeton University...
HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Salmon, g. g., Matthews Clark, r.f.b. l.f.b., Ruslinski Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Linglebach Barnes, r.h.b. l.h.b., E. Reddington Rudd, c.h.b. c.h.b., West Carr, l.h.b. r.h.b., Goodell Kerness, c. c., Houghton Haskell, r.o.f. l.o.f., Truitt Daniellian, r.i.f. l.i.f., Lazarus Driggs, l.o.f. r.o.f., Mincher Bodde, l.i.f. r.i.f., MacDonald...