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...elder Wallace, a Presbyterian minister, known to a neighborly countryside as "Uncle Henry,"was part owner of a county newspaper, and the son learned printing along with tilling as he grew to manhood. When lean years came, young Wallace studiously and scientifically applied himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel...
...their critics. Their means of acquiring information on public questions is greater than that of any of their critics. Their moral purpose is the moral purpose of their respective Congressional and Senatorial districts or States. They constitute the safest exponent and barometer of the hopes, and ambitions of the manhood and the womanhood and the childhood of this great republic...
...candidate must first be designated by his own college or university. The method of choice by a college or university is left to the individual institution, but the basis of consideration is generally that of the state committee, namely: literary and scholastic ability and attainments; qualities of manhood, force of character, and leadership; and physical vigor, as shown by interest in outdoor sports or in other ways. There is no written examination, nor is a knowledge of Greek required...
According to the rules for the award of the famous Rhodes stipends, each holder of a scholarship must be a man who has displayed literary and scholarstic ability, qualities of manhood, force of character, and leadership, and physical valor, as shown in interest in outdoor sports or in other ways...
...generosity where others of his age had erred in pessimism and bitterness. Still, Ferguson was a fair inkling. Said '"90": "His [Ferguson's] attitude toward his teachers and studies baffles a dull observer, but in the main it is governed by his predominating intellectual trait. He admires manhood vastly more than scholarship. He has yet to learn the important place pure scholarship holds in the general plan of things. He is sure to learn this in time. If he finds in the scholar the man he is looking for, the scholar can lead him anywhere. But the tremendous...