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...passing of Dr. Marion Le Roy Burton. President of the University of Michigan, is more than a tragedy. It is a loss that can only be estimated in light of the brilliant performances of his all too short life. In the end that very virtue which was the cause of his phenomenal rise from a newsboy in two streets of Minneapolis to President of three of our largest universities was the cause of his death. Even his tremendous athletic frame could not stand the strains he placed upon it. Work was his idol, his mettle, and finally his master...
...Burton marked a new type of college president. At times he actually shocked the staid old traditions both at Minnesota and at Michigan. His boyish, unblushing, personality was irresistible to all who came into contact with him. In a speech made shortly after assuming the presidency of the University of Michigan he described himself as "just a human being with sand in his gizzard". No President has ever held such popularity as Dr. Burton enjoyed at Michigan. The world has lost a great educator, an inspirational leader, and a true American of the finest type...
Professor Charles Burton Gulick '90 will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...present those of them who are administering to the needs of Harvard students are living in a small house at 14 Oxford street, rented from the University. At their head is the Rev. Granville M. Williams, although the work is under the general supervision of the Rev. Spence Burton '04, father superior of the Boston mission...
...December American Mercury, the unrest became drastic. Prof. Richard Burton, of the University of Min- nesota, took Why Go To College for a text and preached the exclusion from seats of learning, not only of the "cake eater" (see above), but also of that "monument of misapplied energy" and "machinelike assiduity," the dig, grind, poler, swatter, the "young man or woman of mediocre or worse calibre who lacks initiative, personality, creative energy. . . ." Prof. Burton, a man evidently conversant with culture in many forms, was scornful of that form which is "a sort of contagion; you get it by being exposed...