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Ernest Martin Hopkins: President of Dartmouth College, under whose guidance it has grown in fame and been impressed by his own striking personality...
...within the buildings of the neighborhood grey-faced clerks squealed instructions at each other; boys with skins like cellar-grown mushrooms pattered to and fro; nervous bookkeepers scratched names of stocks and bond issues along blue cross lines, drew pothooks down between red and green lines. Theirs was the moil of days, nights* and holidays caused by 3 and 4 million share days...
Along with this spirit of questioning has come moreover the tendency to elevate purely scientific standards in comparison with which every phenomenon of life must stand or fall. And out of this has grown what seems to be one of the greatest controversies of contemporary life, that between, science and religion. It is, indeed, whether subconsciously or not, from this controversy that the books by Mr. Spaulding and Dr. Brown--two among many--have come, each representing a different attitude. Mr. Spaulding, a professor of Philosophy at Princeton, has attacked the subject of "What Am I"? and "What Shall...
...years after the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Phillips founded a boys academy at Andover, Mass. Throughout one hundred and fifty years his legacy to the youth of America has grown and prospered. At all times in the course of its long history Andover Academy has held undisputed rank among the best, as well as the earliest, of American preparatory schools...
Under Mr. Lane's leadership the library has prospered. From a mere 200,000 volumes it has grown to become one of the world's finest and largest libraries with a collection of some two and a half million books. It has been kept up-to-date, and its accessibility has grown with its size under the capable supervision of Mr. Lane. From the original Gore Hall the library has moved to the magnificence of Widener with its never-ending stacks, and Mr. Lane managed the intricate process of moving it without once letting the change interfere with the routine...