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...Yellow Springs, to pull the trigger of the opening gun of the Mann Centenary, went Columbia's old Philosopher John Dewey, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook, 370 other schoolmen. The Centenary will spread to the U. S. public schools to which Horace Mann contributed more than any other individual and on which his fame securely rests...
...next speaker, stout, square-jawed President George Zook of the American Council on Education, the medical men listened respectfully until they realized that he was suggesting that medical schools, like liberal arts colleges, should be allowed to certify that their graduates are fit to be doctors. Due to Abraham Flexner's book and its effect on public opinion, 40 states will not license to practice medicine the graduates of medical schools on the A. M. A.'s blacklist. When heretical Dr. Zook had finished, he was neatly reprimanded by brisk little Biologist Alphonse Mary Schwitalla, S. J., dean...
...appointing one more commission to study the "youth problem" last fortnight, Dr. George Frederick Zook, poker-faced Director of the American Council on Education, reassured Washington newshawks: "This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll...
Bucknell might have railed at Dr. Zook for stealing its perfectly good president if that Baptist institution had not stolen Dr. Rainey from the presidency of small Franklin College four years ago. Twelve years before that Education had stolen him from professional baseball, a career on which he launched, immediately after his graduation from Austin College (Sherman, Tex.), as star pitcher of the Galveston team in the Texas League. A top-notch tennist, Dr. Rainey has often been seen wandering through the dormitories of whatever college he happened to head, looking for a student to trim. In his four years...
...Zook-Rockefeller-Rainey Commission will begin with a survey of all the youth, recreation and health programs in the country, try to bring some order into them. To drum up interest it will hold public forum meetings and when it has made up its mind about improvements, it will establish demonstration centres to popularize them...