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Show 1 DEFENDER OF ROCKEFELLER Dr. Harry Pratt Judaon, prealdont of tho Unl- f;y .- .. vorslty of Chicago, cornea forward aa thp defend- .' '. '-'Jjf ' "jl' '; -' or of John D. Rockefeller, whom ho ropreaonta '''tfir "K(tol'''' aa tho burden-bearer of tho community, conveying ''.Mr '.V. lnfercntially tho Impression that tho multi-million- Bi'-' alro takes the money of tho American peoplo j S''-wlth S''-wlth a solo vlow to using it for the beat Interests .y jmm 4EK.' of humanity by establishing universities at Chica- '(V 'r SLB ' go, general educational boards and Institutions B'. of research. And Dr. Judson la no doubt alncero 'dBliLP'' in tho opinion ho expresses, for ho ia a man of .;'v 'yLAN'WB considerable Independence ot thought and not figlKi'X'.' i a mero truckler to tho money power. .'"?i'T "jjFV.'- Ho cornea of nn old American family that waa vWry1 I mainly inatrumental in organizing tho Baptist '.jjr I X church In America, a family that waa of consldor- ' able Importance In tho early days of New York state. Incidentally, bo la a nephew of Grover Cleveland, but bo does not trade upon that The doctor waa born in Jamoatown in 1849 and waa graduated from Williams Wil-liams collcgo in 1870. He was for 12 years assistant principal of tho high school at Troy, N. Y., and In 1885 accepted the chair or history and a lectureship lecture-ship on pedagogy in the University ot Minnesota. Seven years later ho went to tho University ot Chicago aa assistant professor of political sclonco, and waa shortly aftorwarda promoted to head of his department Tho admlnlBtra-tlvo admlnlBtra-tlvo qualities ho displayed while acting president during Dr. Harper's Illness caused him to bo selected as president of the unlverBlty at tho lattor'a death. Dr. Judson la tho author of a number of authorltatlvo works, including:! "Europe in the Nineteenth Century," "Tho Growth of the American Nation," "Tho Higher Education as a Training for Buslnoss," "Tho Mississippi Valley," and a number of others on a wldo range of subjects. He has been decorated by tho German emperor aa a compliment to his literary ability. |
