Education: After Rightmire

As busy, as varied and as cosmopolitan as a fair is Ohio State University, fourth largest university in the U. S. Running it is a strenuous job, and this spring gaunt President George Washington Rightmire told the board of trustees he wanted to retire July i, just before he becomes 70. A onetime undergraduate football and track star, onetime country schoolteacher, onetime president of the Columbus (Ohio) city council, Dr. Rightmire during twelve years as head of Ohio State has greatly expanded the sideshows and the attendance at the university.

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