Word: uptegraff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harlan Uptegraff, President of Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, has resigned his position on the grounds that he came to the college as an educator, rather than as a money raiser...
...Uptegraff is either unaware of the usual functions of the American college president, or he has up to this ignored them. He should have learned before he took up his duties the fact, for instance, that from 1918 to 1921 six leading American universities were the recipients of 138,000,000 dollars. During the past century the six leading English Universities have been donated 30,000,000 dollars (6,000,000 pounds). The tremendous increase in the number and scope of schools of higher education during the past two decades has made necessary college presidents who could find the funds...
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