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Clarence Griffin Child was an American educator, scholar of medieval literature, and hobbyist mathematician who served as dean of the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. March 1864 – 20. September 1948
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Clarence G. Child Quotes

“To search out the dragon in his true greatness is to learn strange things.”

[University Lectures Delivered by Members of the Faculty in the Free Public Lecture Course, 7, 105-106, https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7NAAAAMAAJ, 1920, University of Pennsylvania]

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