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...your valued magazine of April 13 on p. 36, appeared under Education a story called "Spaeth to Kansas City." Needless to say it is a fine piece of writing, but it rather overlooks the scholarly achievements of Dr. Spaeth during the 31 years that he was at Princeton. It clearly enough appears that he is a most unique personality with qualities and enthusiasm, but it does not demonstrate that his academic achievements were second to none...
BELIEVE YOU OWE DOCTOR SPAETH AMENDS AND APOLOGIES AND SOME CLEVER CAPTION-WRITER A GOOD HARD SIT DOWN IN HIS CHAIR FOR WHAT IS ON PP. 36 AND 37, TIME. APRIL...
...Kansas City last week with his son John Jr., a senior in Cornell's School of Architecture, President-elect Spaeth shook hands with the trustees, showed he felt quite at home in the open spaces by pulling off his coat, settling down to talk about his new job. Acutely aware of itself as a burgeoning cultural centre, Kansas City chafed for 20 years at the fact that it was the biggest U. S. city without a university of its own. After a number of false starts, a non-municipal, non-sectarian university was chartered in 1928. Three years...
After surveying his domain last week President-elect Spaeth hurried off to start putting the University of Kansas City on the educational map. At Kansas State College at Manhattan, he extemporized on "Science and Humanism in Higher Education." At Excelsior Springs, Mo. he told the Central States Bankers Association that "Happiness has nothing to do with prosperity. . . . The Depression may-have been a blessing in disguise for some, because they found the bypaths and mountain trails to happiness...
This autumn Princetonians will miss J. Duncan Spaeth's genial boasting about the talents of his halfbrother, "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth, the professional abilities of his wife. Painter Marie Haughton Spaeth, the age of his Princeton house, built during the French & Indian Wars. Oarsmen will miss his stout figure perched in the bow of a motorboat, whizzing up & down Lake Carnegie at crew practice...