Excerpt from Ella Flagg Young, and a Half-Century of the Chicago Public Schools HE difficulties encountered in writing the life of another are more than technical difiiculties. To interpret the spirit so as to make it common property requires sympathy, grasp, and insight, balanced With a judgment of values that is rare in all of us. In the case of Mrs. Young the difficulties are particularly great. Almost no help in such an undertaking can be derived directly from her or from her immediate friends. In the one case, her interest is in her work and not in herself, making it impossible to secure per sonal touches needed to understand the meaning of her acts; in the other, friends are jealous of relationships and guard them closely. Many persons, however, have placed their best efforts into this work and made it pos sible to write her life. To such I am under the greatest obligation and should like to acknowledge their sym pathetic and invaluable help. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.