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The many sidedness of Conwell is one of the things that is always fascinating. THE MANY SIDENESS OF CONWELL IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS ALWAYS FASCINATING
r, a local military company. While on garrison duty in the Civil War he organized what is believed to have been the first free school for colored children in the South. One day Minneapolis happened to be spoken of, and Conwell happened to remember that he organized, when he was a lawyer in that city, what became the first Y.M.C.A. branch there. Once he even started a newspaper. And it was natural that the organizing instinct, as years advanced, should lead him to greater and greater things, such as his church, with the numerous associations formed within itself through his influence, and the university--the organizing of the university being in itself an achievement of positive romance. “A life without interest!” Why, when I happened to ask, one day, how many Presidents he had known since Lincoln, he replied, quite casually, that he had “written the lives of most of them in their own homes”; and by this he meant either personally or in collaboration with the American biographer Abbott. CIETIES AND BEFORE THE WAR A LOCAL MILITARY COMPANY WHILE ON GARRISON DUTY IN THE CIVIL WAR HE ORGANIZED WHAT WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST FREE SCHOOL FOR COLORED CHILDREN IN THE SOUTH ONE DAY MINNEAPOLIS HAPPENED TO BE SPOKEN OF AND CONWELL HAPPENED TO REMEMBER THAT HE ORGANIZED WHEN HE WAS A LAWYER IN THAT CITY WHAT WOULD BECOME THE FIRST Y M C A BRANCH THERE AND HE EVEN STARTED A NEWSPAPER AND IT WAS A NATURAL THAT THE ORGANIZING INSTINCT AS THE YEARS ADVANCED SHOULD LEAD HIM TO GREATER AND GREATER THINGS SUCH AS HIS CHURCH WITH THE NUMEROUS ASSOCIATION FORM WITHIN ITSELF THEREFORE HIS INFLUENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY THE ORGANIZING OF THE UNIVERSITY BEING ITSELF AN ACHIEVEMENT OF POSITIVE ROMANCE A LIFE WITHOUT INTEREST WHY WHEN I HAPPEN TO ASK ONE DAY HOW MANY PRESIDENTS HE HAD KNOWN SINCE LINCOLN HE REPLIED QUITE CASUALLY THAT HE HAD WRITTEN THE LIVES OF MOST OF THEM IN THEIR OWN HOMES AND BY THIS HE MEANT EITHER PERSONALLY OR IN COLLABORATION WITH THE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHER ABBOT
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