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...train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets???twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand in 1864. He died in 1897, aged 57, but his wife had borne him five sons to carry...
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