Word: cutten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colgate University limited its enrollment to 1,000 men. "Intensive," said President George Barton Cutten. "Education in general does not know where it is going, but we know where we are going...
...check for $7,500: "In Chicago I offered to file a voluntary petition of bankruptcy, putting my liabilities at $275,000, my assets at $50,000. In two years I have lost about $385,000 speculating in grain. Largest of my debts was $200,000 lost to Arthur W. Cutten, wealthy grain merchant, who did me many favors early in my career as a golfer. Mr. Cutten crossed this debt off my list and was quoted as saying to me: "Keep out of the grain market from...
Professor Dearborn, in the Alumni Bulletin, goes even further to show that education is, in part at least, responsible for criminality which has always been attributed to heredity. President Cutten of Colgate takes up the attack at this point and switches the responsibility of education back to citizenship, for education is the one means of developing intelligence and intelligence is the logical basis of all suffrage. President Cutten claims that democracy is a delusion in that general suffrage is the "greatest and most popular failure." He sees a solution only in some practical form of an intelligence test for every...