Education: Symbol

For steel and stogies, for smoke-belching glass factories, for a fuliginous smoke pall, for soot and cinders and fabulous fortunes that the popular mind has pictured piled in spilling, golden mounds among dark mountains —for these things has Pittsburgh been famous since men forgot how she was once a frontier fort in the Red Indians' forest.

Last week, while steel stocks were rising, the giant became Spirit and cried out with a strong voice.

Vocalization. John Gabbert Bowman, Chancellor of Pittsburgh University, was the Spirit's mouthpiece. At a dinner of the Pitt trustees...

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