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When Hamilton College inducts its new president, W. H. Cowley, on Saturday, among the official delegates from some 200 leading educational institutions of the East and mid-West will be a representative from Harvard...
...theatrical weekly, Variety, polied all the colleges and Hal Kemp and the boys came out first. In 10 years Hal estimates that he has played 300 college dances in 53 schools. Four Alpha Chi Rho's from Penn State followed his band one whole summer through the East and Mid-west to dance to his music every night, and they were no Fred Astaires either...
Harvard escapes with clean hands from Mr. Tunis' wholesale charges, inasmuch as this University rejects hundreds of applicants annually. His wrath falls particularly upon the smaller colleges of the mid-West and South, and those schools specializing in advertising-agency prepared catalogues. These booklets, "slick-looking volumes on glazed paper with expensive cuts and pictures" are a "significant commentary on education in the United States," according to Mr. Tunis...
...until his young son Walter, four years out of Yale, stepped into his father's shoes in 1921. When Container Corp. was formed, Walter Paepcke became its president at 29. For his executive vice president he had an old-line boxmaker named John Paul Brunt, onetime head of Mid-West Box, which was acquired shortly after the merger...
...alley back of his Minneapolis apartment house at 5:41 o'clock one afternoon last December, Editor Walter Liggett was riddled by five machine-gun slugs. Liggett's weekly tabloid, Mid-West American, had made a business of regularly denouncing the "alliance" between the underworld and Minneapolis and Minnesota officialdom. More recently, he had violently broken with his old political crony, Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson. Editor Liggett's murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking...