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Such progressivism on the part of a chancellor who is 75 years old and, by virtue of 42 years in the same job, dean of U. S. university presidents, surprised no one who knew him. The "university" which Chancellor Kirkland took over in 1893 was a backward little college bossed by a jealous coterie of Methodist Episcopal bishops. Twenty years earlier "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose cousin-in-law was one of the bishops, had endowed it with $500,000. Chancellor Kirkland, after a bitter fight in Tennessee's Supreme Court, broke the grip of the Church. Then, with...
...planes of bent wire and toilet paper, powered them with rubber bands, begged his mother to remove the chandeliers so they could fly better. One day in 1908 his mother took him to see a real airplane fly. The plane was wrecked because the propeller had been put on backward. Grover Loening (pron. Loaning) decided then & there to become an aviation engineer...
...General Staff this order seemed the acme of moderation, sheer leaning over backward, but the French cabinet saw it as increasing the risk of a war-provoking incident. In Paris, German Air Minister Goring is feared capable of any madness, and Realmleader Hitler's head is rated hot. On orders from French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, himself a wartime aviator, the General Staff order was suspended and "for the present" French frontier guards will write down a description of each German peeping plane which will then be solemnly protested by French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet at Berlin...
Harvard has taken a bold step, but whether the step is forward or backward is a question. According to President Conant, the intention is to make drastic reductions in expenses for athletics and at the same time to build up an endowment fund to lessen the oft-decried commercialization of sport. The first is possible, but hardly desirable, the second desirable, but hardly possible...
...greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like a man shot, backward and high in the air, away from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled my chest and almost suffocated me. For I am afraid of rattlesnakes. Time and again today a rider got down from his horse and bat one to death with...