Education: Triple Ideal

Last week Kentucky-reared Edwin Rogers Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, went to University of Georgia to make a commencement speech on "How to Tell a College Graduate from the Birds and Fishes." Mr. Embree recalled that when he was a boy the South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he...

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