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Last week Dr. Raymond Walters, new president of the University of Cincinnati, issued his annual survey of U. S. college enrolments. His figures cover 438 approved colleges and universities, whose 855,863 students, part and fulltime, represent 80% of the total in all U. S. higher institutions. Dr. Walters finds this total enrolment 7% under 1931 but greater than 1927, "so that the plateau of higher education in this country is substantially maintained...
...Heywood Broun, Lincoln Steffens, Floyd Dell, Director William A. Hodson of the New York Welfare Council, Lawyer Jerome Frank, Vice President Sheldon R. Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence...
...Post went on to flay the English-Speaking Union editorially. Excerpt: "Pearls of wisdom which fall from the lips of Sir Frederick Whyte . . . shall not be cast before - well, not before run-of-mine citizens of Cincinnati thru the medium of newspaper news columns...
...Cincinnati last week went Sir Frederick Whyte, LL.D., Knight Commander of the Star of India, author, statesman, longtime president of the Indian Legislative Assembly, lately adviser on foreign affairs to the Nanking Government. Few days later Sir Frederick departed, with Cincinnati newsreaders none the wiser save for the fact that he had delivered a lecture entitled "The Future of England"; that he and Lady Whyte had been put up at the Walnut Hills home of Professor & Mrs. George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future...
When Sir Frederick and his lady came to town they were promptly pursued to the Barbour home by newshawks. There the newsmen were told that Sir Frederick was under contract not to give interviews before his address two nights hence. Under contract to whom? To the Cincinnati chapter of the English-Speaking Union, headed by social-leading President Joseph Spencer Graydon...