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...bachelor's degree costs $4800 and four years, the master's $6000 and five, and the doctorate, $8500, and seven--a not inconsiderable investment--in terms and money alike. And the reward? For the few who are chosen, it is a professorship, attained only at the end of 15 or 20 years, and worth, at a small college, perhaps $3000, at a medium-sized one $3700 and at the largest $6000. The gains of a deanship are slightly higher. Whereas professors average $3111 and instructors $1588, deans in 44 institutions receive a mean...
...have searched the country from coast to coast and from north to south, but I was able to find only one man who has the power to build into one great, master organization the forces to fight the evils which are seeking to promulgate a theory which will destroy our Government and Christianity, and that man is Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta...
...very affecting speech. The impressive applause came only after a more impressive hush. Then Edward Young Clarke of Atlanta spoke. He announced that the plans for the "master organization" would be ready to submit to the directors of the movement very soon, and that the first unit of the society would be in Atlanta. "After conferring with organizers in all parts of the country," declared Mr. Clarke, "I am convinced that this will be a master organization, and I have been assured that I am working on the right lines for such an organization...
...establishment of headquarters in Atlanta, would mean something very significant to that city. He announced that when his plans had been ratified, a debate on evolution would be held in At- lanta's great public auditorium as the first step toward organizing the first unit of the master organization...
Efforts so far have been directed generally toward taking the curse of pedantic dust off valuable and fruitful knowledge by stifling the preparatory school distinction between master and pupil; and the resourses that lie in contact between students dealing in the same fields have been neglected to some extent, although the example of European universities proves that, properly directed, such contacts are as fertile as any between the student and even the most sympathetic tutor. The group meetings in which overworked tutors take refuge are, as yet, the only places where undergraduates of the same intellectual tastes, as indicated...