Word: details
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Glenn Frank resigned as editor of the Century and became president of the University of Wisconsin in 1925, people told him what terrible hours a university executive had to spend on detail work. He, inexperienced, was no doubt expected to be at his desk from dawn until evensong. But, instead, he was found in his office about half as often as his predecessor. He wandered about the campus, made trips to Manhattan, continued to write for magazines. And the University of Wisconsin got along very nicely; it even progressed; Alexander Meiklejohn was brought out to form an experimental college...
...examinations. There was one question based entirely on the lectures. Two questions were on the reading alone. The remaining two questions were discussion of reading, which discussion offered ample opportunity for personal opinion, and it such opinion were lacking, it could have been supplied by the lectures. No minute detail was required. What examination could be more fair...
...Hoover, certainly, who is a remarkable administrator, with a talent for quick decisions and an unflagging interest in detail...
...prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor, he said, "buy the building." To quote Sullivan again, "he is successful at getting things done, and with all his assumption of authority no one gets...
...relief. Donahey and Pomerene are running as Ohioans. Curtis is running on the advice of his friends. Watson is running for the Indiana delegation. Willis is running for practice or for exercise. But to date none of these gentlemen has defined his attitude toward the Presidency in any great detail...