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"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."
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"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."
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"One half who graduate from college never read another book."
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"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."
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"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."
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"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."
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"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"
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"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"
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"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"
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"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."
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"My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'"
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"I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain."
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"At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school."
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"To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession."
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"My family gave me the best in education."
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"In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics."
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"My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters."
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"I was particularly good at math and science."
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"At the time my dog had a fungus on her chest that wouldn't heal and resisted treatment. I made an ointment with our product and it cleared up in two days. She lived to 17 years."
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"I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford."
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"I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science."
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