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open this statement with an affectionate portraiture of Ernst Freund, the man.Mindful of his modesty, I shall yield only long enough to recall his old-world courtliness, his gentle kindness, his spirited gayety and quick humor, his tremendous intellectual vigor, and the universality of his scholarship.Never "one of the boys," he touched the hearts of his students.I cannot attempt to write of Mr. Freund's many years of work with the civic groups of Chicago, and before the city council, the Illinois General Assembly, and the Constitutional Convention of 1920.It was Miss Harriet Vittum, I believe, head of Northwestern University Settlement, who described him some years ago as one of the most useful men in Chicago.Partly because Mr. Freund once wistfully confessed that he had never read an understanding review of one of his books, I wish I might have felt competent to evaluate his writings: the influential Police Power, intended, he modestly said, as a practitioner's handbook, written almo
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open this statement with an affectionate portraiture of Ernst Freund, the man.Mindful of his modesty, I shall yield only long enough to recall his old-world courtliness, his gentle kindness, his spirited gayety and quick humor, his tremendous intellectual vigor, and the universality of his scholarship.Never "one of the boys," he touched the hearts of his students.I cannot attempt to write of Mr. Freund's many years of work with the civic groups of Chicago, and before the city council, the Illinois General Assembly, and the Constitutional Convention of 1920.It was Miss Harriet Vittum, I believe, head of Northwestern University Settlement, who described him some years ago as one of the most useful men in Chicago.Partly because Mr. Freund once wistfully confessed that he had never read an understanding review of one of his books, I wish I might have felt competent to evaluate his writings: the influential Police Power, intended, he modestly said, as a practitioner's handbook, written almo
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