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"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
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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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"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."
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"Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college."
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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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"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
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"I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester."
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"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations."
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"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
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"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
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"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
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"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
Men

"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
America

"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."
Men

"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
Family

"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."
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"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
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"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
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