Rumor, Riot, Robber

In U. S. schools and colleges last week the following were news:

P: It was rumored that, to succeed James Rowland Angell who will reach the official retirement age of 68 in May, the University of Chicago's Yaleman President Robert Maynard Hutchins would become president of Yale.

P: To succeed Yaleman George Grant Mason (Erie R. R.) as Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the Junior Fellows elected Yaleman Dean Gooderham Acheson, onetime (May-Nov. 1933) Undersecretary of the Treasury.

Appointed were Connecticut's Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross, editor of the Yale Review and for 36 years a Yale faculty member, as an Associate Fellow of Yale's Timothy Dwight College; Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington's Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, as an Associate Fellow of Yale's Trumbull College.

P: Solemnly inducted as President of Wellesley College and presented with its keys, charter and official seal, was 36-year-old Vassarette Mildred Helen McAfee (TIME, May 25). Vassar's Henry Noble Mac-Cracken advised: "Colleges are necessarily conservative. It is their function to remind one of the past--not the dead past but the living past, the past that lives in you."

P: Retired after 40 years service at The Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) was grizzled old Physical Training Director Michael Sweeney, who coached many a successful Hill football and track team, whose high jump (6 ft. 5 5/8 in.) was long (1895-1913) a world record.

P: Officials of small co-educational Alfred University (Alfred, N. Y.), ruling that girls of the freshman class may not have dates on Sunday evenings, defined a date as "any casual or pre-arranged meeting lasting more than 15 min. with a man, after 6 p. m."

P: Across the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Mass, paraded a hundred giggly Republican students, bearing red and green torches, to hear a speech by John William Haigis, Republican nominee for Governor. At the door of John Greene Hall, they met 25 giggly Democratic students with Roosevelt placards who proceeded to tug, scratch, punch, belabor them. Overwhelmed by superior numbers, the Democrats later pushed inside to heckle startled Nominee Haigis.

P: At Sing Sing Prison (Ossining, N. Y.) some 300 inmates, attending the first of a series of lectures under the auspices of New York University's Division of General Education, heard Associate Professor Raymond Rodgers of the School of Commerce discuss "Your Dollar and Mine." Scheduled were lectures on "Travel and the Weather," "The Social Security Program," "Currency Tinkering," "Scientific Thinking on Business."

P: In an incense-saturated room in Manhattan's Chinese Temple, longtime star attraction for Chinatown tourists, before a statue of a fat, laughing joss, the WPA opened an English class for Chinese students. WPA Instructor Esther Pollock held up a card reading "My name is. . . ." Her four slant-eyed pupils respectively scribbled Che Ho, Yung Jing Lee, Harry Lee, Sai Hong-pong.

P: After two weeks of Indiana University's police-training course, sheepish Student Robert Forrester, 17, of Clinton, Okla., confessed to police that he had robbed the homes of Professor Melvin Lewis, Associate Professor Earl C. Hayes, 15 other Bloomington citizens.

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