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...education has had no great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November...
Terms of the will were explicit, tightly limiting the use of the money. Each Woodward school is to be built at least 15 miles from the nearest town each will enroll up to 200 youths. They must be U. S.-born sons of U. S.-born or British-blooded parents. Students will enter between the ages of 12 and 18; preference wil be given to those who plan to take a full course of high school and college work. All the teachers must be northerners (to show Alabamans that damyankees are little different from themselves). There will be no formal...
Chapin took no interest in his trial or in the formidable defense counsel, headed by George Woodward Wickersham, whom the court appointed. He pleaded guilty, took a sentence of 20-years-to-life. Immediately Prisoner Chapin was made editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin. At the instance of Author Basil King he wrote his book, Charles Chapin's Story. But the real substance of his prison life has been his gardening. First with his tobacco money, later with outside help (including a check every month from onetime Reporter Cobb), he set out his beautifully landscaped plots...
...example-already announced last week were the Deans for the new Plan: Professor Chauncey S. Boucher, dean of the College; Professor Gordon Jennings Laing, dean of Humanities Division; Professor Henry Gordon Gale, dean of Physical Sciences Division; Dr. Richard Severingham Scammon, dean of Biological Sciences Division; Dr. Frederic Campbell Woodward (temporary), dean of Social Sciences Division...
...this country we seek to compel obedience to law by . . . death, imprisonment, fines. In England and Canada flogging by birch or by 'the cat' also is in-flicted." Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Law Enforcement Commission, now preparing its report at Washington, wrote that in a paper read for him last week before the American Prison Association at Louisville, Ky. He concluded: "A careful inquiry . . . may well be made to determine the desirability of employing [flogging] in the war against banditry and racketeers...