Step by step, the editor built up this service behind the magazine
until he had a staff of thirty-five editors on the monthly pay-roll; in
each issue, he proclaimed the willingness of these editors to answer
immediately any questions by mail, he encouraged and cajoled his
readers to form the habit of looking upon his magazine as a great
clearing-house of information. Before long, the letters streamed in by
the tens of thousands during a year. The editor still encouraged, and
the total ran into the hundreds of thousands, until during the last
year, before the service was finally stopped by the Great War in 1917,
the yearly correspondence totalled nearly a million letters.
[Illustration: The Grandmother, who counselled each of her children to
make the world a better and more beautiful place to live in--a counsel
which is now being carried on by her grandchildren, one of whom is
Edward Bok.]
The lack of opportunity for an education in Bok's own life led him to
cast about for some plan whereby an education might be obtained without
expense by any one who desired.
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