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Robert Gordon Sproul. president of the University of California LL.D...
...Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador. The central banks of all five countries were established on the advice of Dr. Kemmerer so his attendance was expected, but it is unusual for the Reserve to go out of its official family for its chief representative. Accompanying Dr. Kemmerer will be Allan Sproul and Eric F. Lamb, both of the foreign department of the Reserve Bank...
Robert Gordon Sproul, president, University of California LL.D...
...President Butler's Charter Day address at the University of California he quoted a young Englishman as saying that "politics unfortunately abounds in shams that must be treated reverentially by every politician who would succeed." But President Sproul, who spoke later in the day to the alumni, showed no such reverential attitude toward a particular sham menacing the higher educational standards of the State of California. This young president had the courage to describe the proposal to distribute the State's higher educational funds among at least nine institutions besides the university as "the intemperate oratory of demogogues...
...courses. Dr. Flexner, who does not allow us a single university of pure type in the United States, would be horrified if he could know what is proposed, and President Butler, who permits us only seven universities besides his own (and probably including the University of California), supports President Sproul's appeal for concentration upon an institution of highest ideals as "sound, eloquent and moving." Democracy can do best for itself-not by multiplying mediocrities but by developing intellectual superiorities. There should be such spread of preparatory opportunities as will make certain that the youth who have high abilities will...