The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-12

68NWU may trace Dr. c. B. Glenn's
 influence in many places where
 le has never been said an edu- cationist to me the other day when | mentioned to him that I was about to attempt to write a story. about this scholarly and beautifully edtsSated man, who, as assistant superintendent to Dr. J, H. Phillips of the great public schools of Birmingham, has achieved reputa- tion for integrity, ability and broad scholarship rarely equaled by any man of his day in this community.
 The educatonst went on: T often say to a pupil, You have been under Dr. Glenn's tutelage, and the student says No; have been under so-and-So, and then l immediately reply. Same thing he was fellow student at college with Dr. Glenn and consequently felt his in fluence'
 There are many dozens of splendid regulations in this big city today which owe their inspiration to the fine influ- ence of pr. C. B. Glenn, just as there are many ideas and movements unasso- ciated with his name that truly belong to o-him. and but for his modesty, which is one of the governing characteristics in his makeup" these, with many of his activities outside the sehoolroon would be written in letters of flaming gold, for he has gone straight ahead, forming his own wholesome visions ot education, of splendid manhood, of per- manent upbuilding for which posterity will thank him undoubtedly, for the dreamer of today will be the prophet of-tomorrow
 .'Dr Glenn's mind is a seed plot of ideas,' said young lawyer to me in speaking of him, for you see when have a subject like this-a "high-brow' (al- though l will admit that pr. Glenn is a very human" high-brow) and the teach CT of great Bible class to write about l do d good deal of talking the out side just to get my bearings, as t we're.
 They spring up with amazing fer tility." the young lawyer went on, re- ferring to Dr. Glenn's ideas, which would be disquieting, if didn't re- member that they are all connected at the root"
 This facile statement brought to mind what was said of Coleridge when one ot his friends declared that his talk seemed nothing but detached gems and irrelevancies, unless one was able to follow the vast arc of his theme, tEen it was discovered that the sequence was jerfect."
 And so with Dr. Glenn; his talk fits through history and science and life and art, the Bible and people, with an illuni- nation that is delightful and original and withal, as l said before, 'so human"
 '.He thinks in such various quantities, said a member of his Bible class to me when we were speaking of Dr. Glenn learning, and has such unique mental idiom that it is very difficult for the heavy-footed to follow him. /, I thought this bit of a hint was meant for me, but nothing daunted. I again verified the old aphorism that fools rush in where angels fear to tread" and so went on with my story.
 Dr. Glenn is one of the busiest men III Birmingham, and when l tell you that he is at his desk promptly at o'clock every morning and hard at work unell in the afternoon, you will readily un- derstand the statement have just made,
 With 56 schools to be visited and looked after and 3O,o0O children enumerated on the school records, with his university extension work and his large Bible class on Sunday of 75 at Highlands Methodist church, he scarcely ever has moments relaxation.
 What with conferences with the soo