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Under the headings of Environment, Student Government, and Honor Systems, Religious Provisions and Agencies, and the like are grouped actual interviews with undergraduates of 23 colleges and universities ranging in type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Colleges | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Miss Ling Nyi Vee, Chinese student of Wesleyan College at Macon, Ga.. made a non-stop flight from Macon to Shanghai in 24 hours. Alone above the Pacific Ocean she had only crackers and pickles with which to fight hunger. She was forced to fly so high that her radio messages were frozen. When she reached Shanghai she was given a tremendous and well-deserved reception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Scoop | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...paper that accomplished the scoop was the Macon, Ga., daily Telegraph, in its special Annual Jester Edition, written by students of Wesleyan College. The editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate had read the Jester Edition and stupidly believed every word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Scoop | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania aggregation has shown great scoring power during the season,, its latest victory having been a 15 to 5 shut-out over Randolph-Macon College in Philadelphia last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN CLASH WITH PENNSYLVANIA TODAY | 5/5/1928 | See Source »

...went to Music Hall, in Cincinnati, there to attend the annual celebration attendant upon the distribution of profit-sharing dividend checks. The sum of $700,501, reputedly the largest ever given to employes by any company, was divided. The 5,000 Cincinnatians received half; Ivory Soap workers in Macon, Ga., Manhattan, Chicago & Kansas City, Mo., got the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Annual Party | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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