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...Hampshire. Both students and teachers seemed to take to the new physics teacher, and Dr. Yates himself was obviously enjoying his new job thoroughly. A quiet, amiable man whose nose was usually in a book, he had come to the university armed with an A.B. from the College of Wooster. Ohio, and a doctorate from Ohio State. He also had high recommendations from the Christie Engineering Co. of Philadelphia. Most important of all, Yates certainly seemed to know his physics. To New Hampshire's President Robert F. Chandler Jr., he was nothing short of "brilliant...
...university had to admit that it had been the victim of one of the strangest academic hoaxes in history. Yates, it seemed, was not the real Yates at all, but 31-year-old Marvin Hewitt of Hempstead, N.Y. He had never gone beyond high school, had never been to Wooster or Ohio State, and the Christie Co. that recommended him simply did not exist. Why had he taken on another man's name and record? It was, said Hewitt, "a compulsion. I always wanted to teach...
...playmakers are Hamilton, of Kala Kazoo Mich., Schreiber, of Wooster, Ohio and Dick Hurley, of nearby Belmont. They are all good competitors and hustlers, according to Wilson...
...Yankee youth, Colonel Harry M. Ayers, publisher of the Anniston, Ala. Star, last week had a few words of advice: "Come south, young man." Since World War II, Ayers pointed out tat the 27th anniversary of the founding of Wooster School in Danbury, Conn., capital has been pouring into the South. Even so, said Ayers, "the South is still an undeveloped region." Youth, said he, would discover, as Northern industry had, that in the South "competition is not so keen as it is in other regions," and "condiditions are so much better and success much easier...
...immediately named his imaginary friend "Peters," and the President wished increasingly as the months dragged on that his long overdue employee would turn up. For years passed and this spring when the errant professor was almost forgotten, a small news item appeared in Milwaukee newspapers. The College of Wooster, with a collective red face, had just discharged one Robert Peters, a fraudulent "professor" with bogus references and no degrees. No one at Lawrence knows why Peters changed his mind about the College, but the incident is always related with a sigh of relief...