THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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When Professor Flint was a child, the doctor advised his mother against sending him to school. Mrs. Flint, although not a teacher, was a well-educated woman, and she undertook to educate her son, herself. Professor Flint recalls that until he was 15, he never entered school. His mother and a minister at Thayer taught him all his grade school lessons.
In 1890 the Flint family left Thayer and came to Wellsville. At Wellsville Professor Flint went to school for a few months, but left his studies when his family came to Lawrence in 1891. The high school officials advised Professor Flint that he could not enter high school here until he had a better grounding in Latin. The summer of 1891 Professor Flint took lessons in Latin, and that fall was able to enter the Lawrence high school as a regular freshman.
After his graduation of high school, Mr. Flint came to the University. His brother helped him financially, but Mr. Flint also worked. In the summers he worked for the department of buildings and grounds.
"I can show you floors in some of these buildings that I nearly wore out by scrubbing," he ruefully exclaims.
Once he worked at a canning factory in Lawrence. "I think that was the hardest, most monotonous, dreariest, most tedious work I ever did," Professor Flint declares. "I was relieved when I landed a job as assistant to Chancellor Snow in his laboratory.
Chancellor Snow was a biologist, and he had worked out a control for chinch bugs, which were then overrunning many Kansas farms. For nearly a year Professor Flint helped the Chancellor cultivate a fungus which attacked the chinch bugs in wet weather.
Professor Flint was graduated from the University with a major in philosophy and a Phi Beta Kappa key. He immediately went to work in the Lawrence high school as a teacher. After a year and a half, he took the principalship of the Olathe high school; and from there went to Manhattan a year later to be editor of the Manhattan Nationalist.
"The first years I was editor of the Nationalist were the happiest of my life," he says.
Mr. Flint came to the University in 1906 as first general alumni secretary. He was appointed lecturer in journalism a few years later, and in 1916 was made chairman of the department.
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