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...might--stranger things have happened--become president of Harvard. If he should I can recognize some of those forty professors who would stay on their jobs but I recognize others who I think, would "fold their cents, like the Arabs, and silently steal away." Respectfully yours, Frederick Orin Bartlett...
...Murray Bartlett, president of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., holder of a U. S. Distinguished Service Cross for Y. M. C. A. War valor, a Protestant Episcopalian. Reason: Tolerance; "religion has nothing to do with presidential qualifications...
Riding forth in a shiny automobile on Independence Day went Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. It was in his own home town of Evanston, Ill. It was a parade. Beside Mr. Dawes in the front motor sat Evanston's Mayor Charles H. Bartlett. Each was going to make a patriotic speech. There was a holiday atmosphere in the air. The parade was following them. There would be a crowd at the gathering place in an Evanston park. The dignitaries paid small attention to passing motors full of citizens with golf clubs, bathing suits, pop bottles, eyeshades, shirt sleeves...
...park, the parade behind the Vice-Presidential motor proved to be incredibly small. All told the audience that assembled numbered scarcely 200. The Evanstonians had, apparently, slipped off golfing, bathing, picknicking, rubbernecking that day, or were all sleeping late. The Vice President was vexed, and Mayor Bartlett, too. They scowled at the paltry assemblage, left the speakers' stand without a syllable, drove home...
...Murray Bartlett, president of Hobart College