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...such a generally gloomy atmosphere, some speakers had little advice to offer. But one whose advice seemed to make sense was the University of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life...
...toward top rank among U. S. colleges. And last week the new Iowa got a new head. To succeed Eugene A. Gilmore, who retired last July at 69, the State Board of Education elected as the University's president a shy, handsome Chicago corporation lawyer named Virgil Melvin Hancher...
...Virgil Hancher was a dark-horse candidate, but no stranger to lowans. Born on an Iowa farm, he got his A.B. and law degree at the State University, where he was a high scholarship man and president of his class, two years ago was president of the Iowa Alumni Association. He also went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, got an M.A. there. No educator, he gave up a better-paid law practice to take the $12,-ooo presidency, was chosen to give Iowa an efficient business administration...
Many an educator envied Mr. Hancher his job. Through the middle of the University in Iowa City rolls the peaceful Iowa River. The University buildings are on a gigantic scale: its field house contains a full-sized practice football field; its indoor swimming pool is one of the largest in the U. S. On the river banks stand a Rockefeller-financed Medical College, a Rockefeller-financed theatre, a Carnegie-financed art building. Even more famed is Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station...
Last week lowans anxiously wondered how much help and encouragement President-elect Hancher would give to the University's arts program. Mr. Hancher would only say: "It is my personal opinion that creative effort has a proper place in a balanced fine arts program." Old Carl Seashore croaked: "A very fortunate appointment...