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When young Dr. Marvin was elected president in 1922, he had been at the University of Arizona less than a year. He had coma there as a professor of economics from the Southern Branch of the University of California, where he had risen in two years from assistant professor to the dual capacity of dean and public business adviser. He had behind him a thorough training at Stanford and Harvard. He had flown an airplane in the War. He was chunky, rapid, practical; the kind of man other men like to call "a dynamo." In Tucson he swiftly won the respect of leading business men, for he joined their civic clubs and "mixed well." Unlike Economist John Stuart Hill, He did NOT lose his natural bonhomie Through his interest, in political economy.He was a Mason and an American Legioner. When they elected him, at 33, he was "youngest university president," a fact in which his merchant friends took great pride. On paper in his office he visualized an institution in keeping with Arizona's wealth of copper and climate. He overhauled the faculty, noting deficiencies. He sent away for the ablest men he could find. And from Tucson he dismissed such professors as he thought were weak.