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It was fitting that Dr. Murlin. should have the opportunity to confer a degree upon the first lady of the land just at this time. After Christmas, Dr. Murlin, honorably released (TIME, Oct. 6), leaves Boston University to assume the presidency of his alma mater, De Pauw University (Greencastle, Ind.). Last week, the Boston trustees voted Dr. Murlin an honorarium of $5,000 in appreciation of a 13-year administration during which the University grew from a body of 1,347 students to one of over 12,000. At the same time, the trustees appointed as Dr. Murlin's temporary successor Bishop William F. Anderson, prelate of the Boston area of the Methodist Episcopal church.
At New Haven
At New Haven, Conn., earlier in the fall, when the walls of a new dormitory authorized by the Yale Corporation started unexpectedly to rise, hard by sacrosanct old Connecticut Hall on the Yale campus, great was the shout that went up (TIME, Nov. 3, Nov. 17). Faculty, alumni, undergraduates blended their voices in the outcry: "Stop it! Tear it down! Hush hall!" Moved, the Corporation ordered that the walls cease to rise. Committees met and met, discussing what was wise and proper to be done. Dr. James R. Angell, Yale's diplomatic chief executive, went hither and thither, explaining, dissuading.
Last week, the Yale faculty voted to support the Corporation in whatever it saw fit to do with the mooted building. The Yale alumni voted likewise. The way was clear. The Corporation sent its masons back to work.
Rhodes and Scholars
Some 55 years ago, a sickly English boy was shipped by his family out to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother there and build up his constitution. That was the beginning of a longish story that empire-building Britons now teach their children very early in life. The sickly young man dug diamonds, bags of them, at Kimberly. As he dug, his health returned. At 19, he was a 19th Century Croesus with his life before him.