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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple-minded; he was one of the greatest brains produced in the Civil War, ruled by a rigid integrity. His preliminary internal struggle on the question of loyalty to his state as against loyalty to the Union was decided not by a puritanical conception of duty, as General Maurice would have one believe, but by the dictates of a high sense of personal honor. He must have realized that the life of the nation was jeopardized by the Southern secession, but when Virginia called him, he felt that he could not give his allegiance elsewhere. There is no grander picture...
...Today there are eighteen. Again, the ten largest universities of 1910 had a combined enrollment of less than 43,000; today they have more than 101,000. The mastery of the tasks of administration and educational organization which such vast numbers of students impose is a challenge to the greatest executive talent and qualities of leadership, mental and spiritual, which the United States is capable of producing. In the eager entrance of thousands upon thousands of new students each year into the colleges of the land is the Nation's greatest single promise of a noble and worthy future...
...Soares, who is a professor of homiletics and practical theology at the University of Chicago, has been conducting the daily morning services in Appleton Chapel this week. He is the author of several books, including "The Supreme Miracle and Other Sermons," and is nationally recognized as one of the greatest of American preachers...
When asked about the value of a college education in politics, Mr. Whiting was loud in its praises. "Outside of the mere bookish information which you acquire, college gives one a broader outlook on life and one's fellow men, and that after all is one of the greatest qualities a politician can have. In fact, all but seven presidents of the United States have been college graduates...
...University squash tournament got under way yesterday afternoon, with the greatest number of entrants in recent years. One hundred ninety four are competing in the entire University, of which 82 are in the College, 64 in the Law School, 31 in the Business School, 14 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and 5 in the Engineering School...