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Born and brought up in the Mid-West, Merrifield attended the University of Minuesota before coming to Harvard. It was he who first proposed the idea of forming a glee club from Communications men stationed here, an idea the merit of which will be tested when the singers make their debut in the Sanders Theatre concert with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society next Thursday...
Among the electees were representatives from five of the Houses, two from the Yard, and one commuter. Only one student elected was from west of the Mississippi, while four of the ten are from the Mid-West...
...also learned that various members of the administrative staff, including Dean Henry L. Chauncey '28 are now touring the mid-West, interviewing applicants for the national scholarships for the coming school year...
Having made about two-thirds of the team's points, Captain Mike Keene, Frank Bixler, and Dean Hennessey are easily the standouts on the squad. Besides being from the mid-West, Keene and Bixler from Indiana and Hennessey from Illinois, all three live in the north entry of Matthews Hall which always sends a special cheering section to the Freshman games. Hennessey halls from the same town and high school in Illinois as "Bunks" Burditt, star of the Varsity's victory over Dartmouth...
...George Abraham, Brown '40, who put the struggling Brown University station on its feet two years ago and thereby started a movement which spread like prairie fire from one university to another. Abraham hopes that his idea for an intercollegiate chain will grow to include stations in the mid-west and far west besides those already recruited in the eastern states...