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Recently Professor Lovejoy assailed Governor Nice and Colonel Ames W. W. Woodcock them president of St. Johns College, for their attitude toward the Teachers Oath Bill...
Harold F. Woodcock, Business Manager of the Yale A. A. is overflowing with smiles as he contemplates a complete sell-out of all Arena seats--3500 seats at $2.20 a head isn't any crying matter either...
...Grenville Bates the responsibility of picking best in snow slid like water from a spaniel's back. Against one of the same sturdy shoulders a gun butt is often set, for John Bates can spare enough time from his Wall Street brokerage business (Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County Golf Club, N. J. and he knows dogs...
...such centre today, St. John's is a small (enrollment: 250), State-subsidized school struggling unimpressively in the shadow of the Naval Academy. Its long educational decline was climaxed under the presidency of one-time (1930-33) U. S. Prohibition Administrator Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, who resigned two months ago after a squabble with the Board of Governors. Under the reign of President Woodcock, St. John's was removed from the accredited list of the Middle States Association of Colleges for graduating in 1935 a student who had failed to pass his final examinations. Writing this year...
...week after Elections, the week of most colleges' Big Football Game, the week of the National Automobile Show and the last week of woodcock shooting in New England-last week-was American Education Week. For the benefit of 25,000 parent-teacher groups who would inspect their public schools locally during the week, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Langworthy of The National Congress of Parents & Teachers, wrote an instructive message...