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...most stay-at-home Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 75-year-old Bachelor James Clark McReynolds, last week stirred from his Washington apartment to attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...
Carleton's President Cowling, a bouncing Yaleman who in 28 years has transformed a small Congregationalist school (alma mater of Pierce Butler and the late Economist Thorstein Veblen) into a prosperous, top-ranking college, should have no trouble recruiting two facultymen of suitable calibre. A perambulating president who likes the world better than his Northfield office, Carleton's Cowling has six onetime college presidents on his faculty, a high-powered board of trustees including, besides Lawyer Kellogg, Lumberman Frederic Somers Bell and Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo...
...Joseph determined to write song hits too, resoundingly succeeded once with Little Brown Jug, Don't I Love Thee. As Septimus was more prolific, so was his end more picturesque. On a fine November day in 1902 he attended the dedication of a new building for his alma mater, the old High School, shook hands with President Roosevelt, the principal speaker, made a speech himself, went home and died...
...served his alma mater, Knox College, as president, 1892-99. He was professor of politics at Princeton from 1900 to 1903, president of the College of the City of New York...
Tarantella: Mater, Ades...