Education: Persuaded

Big, burly Professor J. (for John) Duncan Spaeth is famed among Princeton men as the loudest lecturer on the faculty, the most tumultuous impersonator of Shakespearean characters, Princeton's longtime crew coach (1910-25), half-brother of "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth. Last week new, small University of Kansas City ran up great telegraph tolls persuading Professor Spaeth to become its first president.

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