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Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
...Simmons College, Boston, back of the Art Museum on Huntington Avenue, 835 girls are studying to become private secretaries. Later they will learn the dreariness of this type of work. But as yet they retain their maidenly assurance. And it was in this mood that last week, at the behest of their Director Edward Henry Eldridge, they examined the current prudency of the Ten Commandments. They found that God had graven His Commandments...
...undesirable Buchmanism" was actually in vogue with the Philadelphian Society. Ironically, the mass meeting had been called by the Society itself to launch a $25,000 charity drive. The Society's undergraduate officers denied that they were Buchmanites, but the investigation went forward at President Hibben's behest, by a committee composed of faculty members and trustees as well as undergraduates...
Then she was moved to insure the permanency of her creation by making the nation responsible for it. To generosity ($100,000 and $28,200 per annum) she had to add ingenuity, but she achieved her end. Now-for expense is no object-Europe is combed at her behest, native genius is more than ever encouraged and at least one art flourishes at the political but not the artistic U. S. capital...
...advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...