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THE LIFE OF PAUL DOUGLAS IS FILLED WITH EPISODES SHOWING A DEDICATION TO DUTY FOR HIS STATE AND NATION. BRIEGLY, HERE IS HIS LIFE'S STORY:
...HE SPENT HIS BOYHOOD YEARS ON A FARM IN NORTHERN MAINE WHERE CONDITIONS WERE ALMOST AS PRIMITVE AS IN FRONTIER DAYS.
...AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, HE WENT TO BOWDOIN COLLEGE WHERE HE WORKED HIS WAY BY WAITING ON TABLES AND MIXING CONCRETE.
...AT BOWDOIN, HE FOUND ENOUGH TIME TO PLAY ON THE VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM.
...IN 1913 HE GRADUATED AND WAS AWARDED A PHI BETA KAPPA KEY FOR SCHOLASTIC HONORS. IN 1915 HE RECEIVED A MASTERS DEGREE FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY!
SOON AFTER THAT, DOUGLAS BEGAN A GREAT COLLEGE TEACHING CAREER WHICH CONTINUED UNTIL HE TOOK LEAVE FOR MILITARY SERVICE. HIS FIRST POSITION WAS TEACHING ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS!
IN 1923 HE RECEIVED A DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. TWO YEARS LATER HE BECAME FULL PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THAT YEAR HIS FIRST OF MANY ECONOMICS BOOKS WAS PUBLISHED...
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