kind of a notch above us, but Lord bless you, you'd never think it to meet him—just as simple and unaffected and slap-you-on-the-back as any of us.
Professor Baroot, prof of industrial sociology in the U, this was, but say, that guy, he never went at teaching in any of these old-fashioned stand-off methods.
He told me himself, he volunteered it, in fact, that he didn’t give more than half of his time to teaching, and that because of his subject—it was his job to show the students that the great American industrial corporations can care for their men and prevent accidents and keep clear of anarchists and labor troubles better than any small firm—as I say, because of what he taught, he was as thick as thieves with a lot of managers of big industries, and it was his job to keep in with those guys and get them to contribute to the University.
A mighty fine fellow. Belonged to the Rotary Club and the American Security League and the Klan—or rather he did till the Klan got unpopular—and the Moose and the Odd Fellows and
