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Wisconsin's new president, big Clarence Addison Dykstra, facing his first major administrative crisis, quickly defined a liberal by acting like one. He declared himself neutral in the controversy, said the students "must settle their problem as a lesson in self-government." He also hazarded the opinion that the dispute was political, not racial. Said he: "Doubtless in the heat of the Cardinal campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper...
...Addison, Steele, Dryden, and Pope were the men to whom Greenough devoted most of his studies. He edited the "Selections from the Writings of Joseph Addison" and wrote numerous articles on the Tatler and the Spectator...
...your Sept. 6 issue I have read the account of the award of the top prizes in the recent Old Gold contest. Is it not true that William R. Staggs, winner of the first prize of $100,000, had to split this prize with his contest partner, Addison Pound Jr., of Gainesville...
...home on Warren Road, a country place in Thornhill, just outside Toronto. But with arrival of the mining boom, which has made speculation in Toronto as common a pastime as the cinema, H. B. Housser & Co. began to diversify. Harry Housser was one of the group which backed Kerr Addison, which in the past year went from a few cents a share...
Many a man is made by catastrophe. Ulysses Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati...