Education: Explorer

The word got out at Northfield, Minn, one day last May: the most popular professor on the campus, Laurence McKinley Gould, would be Carleton's new president. The boys broke out red ties, and coeds donned red skirts, for Larry Gould Day. Husky, handsome Larry Gould is famed in little, rich Carleton College for his flaming collection of 150 red ties.

Both Carleton, and its new president, are like that. In the 26 years since his discharge as a World War I Army sergeant, Larry Gould has been a scholar and professor. But several times he...

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