Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge telegraphed to Mrs. Marion LeRoy Burton their condolences on the death of her husband (see EDUCATION...
...Burton died last week, only a little over 50, leaving an enviable record as the President of one college and two Universities, all of first-rate importance. In 1874, he was born on a farm at Brooklyn, Iowa. His youth was spent in Minneapolis, and he was obliged to go to work when he had got through his first year of high school. At 19, he resumed his schooling. He was 22 when he entered Carleton College and almost 26 when he was graduated. At 29, he entered the Yale Divinity School. In three years, he took his Bachelor...
...after a memorable farewell dinner at which Lieutenant-Governor Calvin Coolidge presided, Dr. Burton became President of the University of Minnesota. He was there three years, whence he went to the University of Michigan and it was from there that his old friend Calvin Coolidge called him one day last June to deliver a nominating speech on his behalf at the Cleveland Convention of the Republican Party. It was Dr. Burton's only excursion into politics, although he had a definite bent in that direction. That speech brought Dr. Burton no mean amount of fame at the time...
...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...