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...England on the hills of Old Bennington, a woman's college is shortly to be established. At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania an English honors school is in full operation. Down in North Carolina on the rolling Piedmont soil of Durham Duke University is rising. Here in the Middle West, Antioch College has been reborn upon a plan startingly original and appealing in many ways. The University of Wisconsin gives the opportunity to test out the faith of Professor Meiklejohn in the possibility of cultural education upon a new plan. A further experiment not yet begun is the plan...
...British bishops are entitled to be addressed as "my lord." Besides the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, have permanent seats in the House of Lords. Twenty-one other bishops sit by ecclesiastical election...
...Blushingly he conceded that "all this sounds like the dull booming of a local Chamber of Commerce." Then, full-throated, he said, "The astounding thing is that the figures of the Birmingham growth and development, of Atlanta's march ahead, of the strides in the Winston-Salem and Durham districts, check up. The claims made cannot be discounted nor the statements of the extraordinary expansion refuted. The rise in Birmingham's population from 35,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1926 tells the story better perhaps than anything else...
...engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California; Keith A. H. Murray, Edinburgh, agriculture at Cornell; George S. Pryde. St. Andrews, history at Yale; Clifford B. Purves, St. Andrews, chemistry at Johns Hopkins; Richard A. Robb, Glasgow, statistics at Chicaco; William Rule, University of Durham, physics at Cornell; Howel Williams, Liverpool University and Imperial College of Science, London, geology at California; Normal C. Wright Christ College, Oxford and Callus, Cambridge, agriculture at Cornell...
...American Tobacco Co. did remarkably well last year, according to its annual report last week. This company makes a horde of useful products?Lucky Strike (It's toasted"), Egyptian Straights, Herbert Tareyton, Johnny Walker, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Naturals, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal ("Ask Dad, he knows"), Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Serene, Old English Curve Cut, and many another. Their sales?billions of cigarets and tobacco packages?netted the company $22,238,919 last year. This meant, after preferred dividends were paid, $9.77 a share (par $50) on the $97,639,600 of common and common B stocks outstanding...