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...takes something to write about simple people, countrymen, immigrants, without being photographic, drab. What it takes Zona Gale has got. Out of the ruck of close-to-the-soil Midwestern authors she emerged with her first book. Her stories are as realistic as bread but they have a homemade flavor, not to be had without a personal recipe. She handles a grim subject with skilfully gentle, feminine hands...
Matey, youngest daughter of a clever, ineffectual professor in a Midwestern college, suffers like her brother and sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies, Matey goes to Rustdorf, sleepy Hudson River town, to collect a legacy, meets her distant cousin Adrian, marries him and settles down. But both have lived in France ; when the War comes, both feel a duty to help. They take their children abroad, Adrian drives an ambulance, Matey helps...
Notable among Midwestern schools for boys is Lake Forest Academy. Unlike its many neighboring institutions it is not a military school. Since 1858 it has seen Lake Forest, Ill. become Chicago's socialite suburb. As though embarrassed by surrounding opulence, L. F. A.'s old buildings have hidden themselves behind thick trees, gathered ivy about themselves, for L. F. A. is not a Rich School (plant value: $800,000). But no such embarrassment is suffered by big-boned, energetic Headmaster John Wayne Richards, called "Big Dick" by younger faculty members and his 207 boys when out of earshot...
What worried Headmaster Richards, however, was the way the big Eastern preparatory schools pulled the cream of Midwestern youngsters across the Alleghenies to school. He resolved that Lake Forest should equal the Eastern schools in educational facilities and plant. In 1927 he set out to raise $1,000,000 from alumni and wealthy Chicagoans. The money will build dormitories, commons, a science hall, a headmaster's house, a chapel in memory of onetime (1897-1900) Head master Alfred Gardner Welch, who died of exposure after saving a group of students who drifted out on Lake Michigan...
...build up a school which will keep Midwestern boys near home before they proceed East to acquire the rest of their light and learning, "Big Dick" looks for help from a potent board of trustees. Among them: Robert Julius Thorne, one-time president of Montgomery Ward & Co.; Charles F. Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; Albert Blake Dick Jr. (mimeographs); President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin National Watch Co.; Clayton Mark (steel); Cyrus Hall McCormick (harvesters) ; President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Ry.; Louis Franklin Swift (packer...