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...this seventh President-he was none other than Dr. Robert Ernest Vinson, erst of Texas. President Emeritus Charles F. Thwing saluted him; and Dr. Vinson replied: ". . . We already have more facts than we have assimilated. Our knowledge has already outrun our moral and spiritual development. Our chief duty now is to bring the ethical and spiritual character of the Nation up to the point where its intellectual development will be in safe hands...
...Southerner (South Carolina), a scholar (Hebrew, Philosophy), a clergyman, Dr. Vinson was warmly welcomed in Mr. Thwing's salutation. Dr. Splawn, down in Texas, may well have noted these phrases about his former chief: "In Austin, he fought with political beasts from almost the beginning to the close of his illustrious career. He overcame them by wisdom, persistence, high idealism and personal charm. The qualities which won in the Southern give great promise of a like wining in the Northern field...
Charles Franklin Thwing, famed President Emeritus of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, reviewed the year in higher education...
Statistics are sometimes inconclusive, but always interesting in the consideration of any problem. In a recent number of the Harvard Graduates Magazine there has appeared a flock of figures which seem to be both. They have been compiled by ex-president Thwing of Western Reserve University, now president of the United Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, and bear upon the past records of men who have taken honors in the Harvard Law School during the last half-century. The records which he chooses are clearly typical, and represent the mark of nearly five-hundred of these wise...
...conclusion which Professor Thwing draws forth is this: that the best training for a lawyer in college is the solid, but broadening study of languages. For these teach a man both to reason and to express himself. The best lawyers were not those who in college tried to get pre-season practice by studying subjects related to Law, but those who learned to study successfully anything worthy of interest...