People: Nov. 8, 1926

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Dr. Clarence Cook Little, biologist-president of the University of Michigan: "In an article for the current Scribner's on 'The Disappearing Personal Touch in Colleges' I made an analysis of the relation between intellectual leadership and religious thinking, the conclusion of which reminded many readers of the writings of Editor H. L. ('Hatrack') Mencken of the American Mercury, famed baiter of Methodists and Baptists. I considered the lawyers, medicos, scientists and writers listed under the letters A,M, and W in Who's Who, comparing the proportions of religious denominations thus represented with the relative sizes of religious groups in the whole U. S. population. I found that Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Universalists, Presbyterians led in Who's Who, leaving Baptists, Methodists, Roman Catholics far behind."

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