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...have John T. McCutcheon draw a cartoon for the cover. Then we'll have an editorial page and put at the top that things of Decatur's: 'Our Country . . . may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!' That must be good stuff; we've used it for a long time. Then we'll get some stories-the kind we use in our Sunday editions-by George Barr McCutcheon, Albert Payson Terhune and Montague Glass. And we can have Mae Tince, who does our movies, contribute some of that...
That iconoclast of the present era of university education, Mr. Upton Sinclair, must have laughed a grimly sardonic laugh when he read of the strike of five hundred students of Millikin University, at Decatur, Illinois. The contention, which he defended in "The Goose Step", that most American colleges are run under the influence and according to the malignant desires of the capitalistic classes whose representatives sit on various boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from...
Professor Lowes was born in Decatur, Ind., December 20, 1867, and received his A.B. degree from Washington and Jefferson College in 1888. He studied abroad for several years and was granted the degree of A.M. by the University in 1903 and of Ph.D. in 1905. He has been professor of English at Hanover College and at Swarthmore College and comes hero from Washington University where he has been professor of English since 1909 and dean of the college since...
...Mueller 1917, of Decatur, Ill., captain, back, prepared at Cascadilla School and played on his freshman team. He is 21 years old, six feet tall and weighs 189 pounds...
...Mueller, Cornell 1917, of Decatur, III., was elected captain of the Cornell football team for 1916 at the annual banquet of the football squad. Mueller was substitute fullback last year and regular fullback on this past season's championship team...