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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were valedictorians or salutatorians of their classes, 461 men who were members of Phi Beta Kappa and the remaining 1,066 who had attained no distinctions. In later life those who gained sufficient prominence to have their names included in "Who's Who in America" were distributed among the classes in the following order: first group, 50; second group, 31; third group, 9. In order to show that the same rule holds true in industrial as well as intellectual activities, Dr. Rice conducted a similar investigation into the salaries of members of the Pratt Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering...
...with the following significant remarks. "On the whole, then, all these studies point in a consistent direction; those who are destined to achieve distinction do so at an early age. Whether measured by achievement in academic courses, honors in professional and technical courses, salary earned after graduation, or inclusion among lists and directories of eminent men, success in later life is suggested by the early work of the school curriculum. In spite of frequent comments to the contrary, the school curriculum would seem to constitute a most useful test in prognosticating at least the most probable quality of the individual...
Captain Cook was born among the folk at the tip of Cape Cod. It was natural for him to take to the sea. He was a sailor boy t eleven, before the mast at fourteen, and captain of a fisherman at twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys...
...even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful citizenship, there must be among them great leaders and great teachers. This is precisely the opportunity and need which Atlanta University is living up to. Teachers who assume the higher responsibilities are as entitled to training schools of the best type as are any white instructors of youth. --New York Evening Post
...advisers who have the general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement or reputation. Doubtless those who like the old way of tariff-making--a compromise among selfish interests--would call him a "theorist." So he is; so any student of so intricate a subject must be. And his knowledge of theory qualifies him all the more to treat the subject broadly, with due regard to national needs. It makes little difference what precise place he occupies...