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...Catholic unit of the University of Toronto, for 34 years, and except for occasional excursions, he stayed there, reading, writing, and enjoying his Texas-born wife and six children. Softspoken, amiable and amusing, with a fondness for puns, he scarcely seemed like the prophet of a new age. Butin many ways he was, and one of his favorite quotations, from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, might stand as his epitaph: "We were the first that ever burst/ Into that silent...
...World War I, Paul Butin wore the eagles of a colonel on his shoulders, but when he stood his last review his sleeves were crosshatched with a sergeant's chevrons. In one of the Regular Army's most irregular careers, he had left the service for physical disability after the war, rehabilitated himself, enlisted as a private. By last week, after twelve years' enlisted service, he was a 60-year-old sergeant, ready to retire. Said he, after a parade in his honor: "I wish I was 30 years younger and starting this all over again...
Professor Kirsopp Lake and Associate Professor R. P. Blake, '09. Director of the Harvard University Library, are leading the archaeological expedition which is going out from Harvard this week to continue researches in the Sinai peninsula. Professor R. F. Butin of the Catholic University of America will be a member of the expedition, which is being carried out under the joint auspices of the two Universities...
...unscholarly listener less interesting than the circumstances under which they were found, than the very fact that they were found and deciphered. To the study of languages is added an important link--a connection between obscure Phoenician characters and Egyptian writings. For a scholar the story which Professor Butin of Catholic University tells of their deciphering must be of absorbing interest, regardless of the trivialties of the actual meaning. To those who make no claim to being scholars, the interest lay in the first hand glimpse into scholarship at its most interesting, into the strange country of which Cambridge...
Professor Butin closed with the hope that the Harvard men who made the first discoveries would return to find more. His statement points to a fact which can scarcely be brought to light to often that a modern university is not only a storehouse of past learning, but a center for the gathering of new knowledge an agency which covers the glabe, from the Amazon and the Andes to the forbidden mountains of Tibet. Berein lies perhaps the answer to those who for one reason or another have questioned, from the founding of the first university, the worth of such...