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Texas' serious President Homer Price Rainey figures that as 63% of Army men must have either a college education or special training, the educational system should be speeded up so that a boy will finish college, if possible, by the time he is 18. President Rainey wants U.S. high schools to go on a year-round schedule, thinks selected boys should go to college after high school's junior year. When a boy reached 18, the Government could then take charge, pay for any subsequent special training the services required...
...from the Ivy league is Dr. Rainey's bailiwick (despite its student enlistments Texas remains the biggest university in the South), where students are so unsheltered that nearly a fifth are married and last year six were in the legislature. Lively Texas has been on the select membership list of the Association of American Universities since 1929, is one of four Southern universities so distinguished...
...more inspiring to the delegates than the learned symposia was the fabulous history of the University of Chicago itself-a story of three men: William Rainey Harper, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Hutchins. Like the university he founded, Harper was a prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he read the Bible at three, graduated from Muskingum College at 13, taught Hebrew at Muskingum at 16, got a Ph.D. at Yale at 18, was a full professor at 20. Harper made the study of Hebrew, theretofore deader than Sanskrit, a national fad. He started Hebrew summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses...
...corner of Alaska nearest Siberia was probably man's first threshold to the Western Hemisphere. So for years archeologists have dug there for a clue to America's prehistoric past. Until last year, all the finds were obviously Eskimo. Then Anthropologists Froelich G. Rainey of the University of Alaska and two collaborators struck the remains of a town, of inciedible size and mysterious culture. Last week in Natural History Professor Rainey, still somewhat amazed, described this lost Arctic city...
...ruined houses. Some skulls contain large ivory eyeballs inlaid with jet pupils (see cut, p. 59). Birdlike ivory beaks were substituted for the corpse's nose. Who were these people? How did they manage to live? Whence did they come, whither did they go? Says Professor Rainey: "We, as archeologists, have a difficult problem to explain the Ipiutak culture...