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Meantime Lincoln Memorial University, near the junction of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia, an institution founded in 1897 without any "trumpet blast" but with a quiet, non-sectarian religious purpose and with the idea of carrying to four and one half million Appalachian mountaineers some of the enlightenment for which Abraham Lincoln, wilderness boy, so hankered—Lincoln Memorial University issued a dignified statement to the public that it needed a million dollars to go on with its work. To describe the handicaps it was working under with inadequate buildings and endowment, it quoted a most Lincolnian remark addressed to it by its good friend, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times. Mr. Ochs had said: "You are boring with a gimlet when you should be using an augur."
*For footnote, see col. 2. *To TIME'S Education Editor a thoroughgoing reprimand for omitting from a tabulation of the Transcript's "ten largest enrollments" (TIME, Jan. 24), the largest one of all. The corrected list:
1) New York University 18,199
2) University of California 17,101
3) Columbia 12,643
4) University of Illinois 11,810
5) University of Minnesota 10,796
6) University of Michigan 9,587
7) Ohio State University 9,377
8) University of Wisconsin 8,220
9) University of Pennsylvania.. 8,118
10) Harvard University 7,993
*Discipline officer; drillmaster. West Point's chief executive and ranking officer is a Superintendent; at present, Brigadier General March B. Stewart.