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...youth will be more than ever necessary for President Hutchins of Chicago. He will command educational machinery used by nearly 15,000 students. To him for decisions will come such world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer Mathews, Latinist Gordon Jennings Laing, English Littérateur Robert Morse Lovett. Physically the University of Chicago is among the hugest in the U. S. Buildings started last year included a Social Sciences Building, the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building...
...this public stigma fastened upon the Philistine who has never studied Latin, or upon that more unfortunate person who failed to study it enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance...