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...Grimy Cicero, Ill. (pop. 67,000), which huddles close to Chicago's west boundary, has never had a reputation for being exclusive. During the roaring '20s, the Torrio-Capone mob roared through Cicero's streets in armored cars, ruled its wide-open gambling joints, honky-tonks and whorehouses. Cicero is also an industrial town, with tree-lined neighborhoods of workingmen's homes, and friendly corner taverns where jukeboxes play lively polkas and the talk at the bar is in many languages. Though its history is pockmarked with crime and violence, Cicero makes one proud boast...
Greetings to all of you. . . . (Rexine then made his greetings specific and bade his classmates "Hall and Farewell!"). . . . In difficult matters and critical times, let us remember to keep a balanced mind; let us be on our guard unremittingly; let us never be afraid . . . as Cicero once said in his defence of the poet Archias, "nourish youth, delight old age, embellish prosperous times, afford a haven and solace in adverse times, give pleasure at home, do not hinder abroad, spend the night with us, travel about with us, live in the country with...
Their day begins promptly at 7:30, when Headmaster Wendell arrives in the great dining hall to say grace before breakfast. By 8:50, the boys are swarming into classrooms for courses in. Cicero, chemistry, math, religion. They are not expected to have much trouble: the very first course a boy takes at The Hill is the one the headmaster started in "How to Study...
...Cicero & Mishmash. The board began as an idea in the mind of the late Nicholas Murray Butler, then a mere dean of the faculty of philosophy at Columbia University. In those days, every college and university seemed to be setting up different requirements for admission. Even when they did agree on the broad subjects they wanted, they disagreed on how much. History at Columbia meant chiefly American history; at Yale it meant big doses of English history as well. Science for Harvard meant physics, at Yale it included botany, at Cornell, physiology. As for Latin, said Nicholas Murray Butler...
Among the more cautious half of Cicero's townspeople, who were not demanding the use of the bomb-or at least not yet-were Postmaster A. T. McKnight and Banker Newton Wiles. They were willing, they said, to leave the A-bomb...