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Early to Rise. Benson has taken command of his vastly complex task with the calm assurance of an able administrator, the energy and prayerful devotion of a Mormon missionary. A committee worker who believes, like every good Mormon, in cooperative endeavor, he has already streamlined the huge Agriculture Department so that only four men, instead of 20, report directly to him. Up at 5 and usually in his spacious, paneled office by 7:30 or 8, Benson starts most working days with a round of handshakes; he has met about one-third of the 8,000 Agriculture employees who work...
According to the Survey, "scholars" are those who dedicate themselves to advanced scholarly endeavor." Radcliffe might yet be preserved, for quality was not a consideration...
...period when students could entertain a women in one's room. Any red-blooded Harvard student, University Hall believes, spends the hours from 1 to 4 messing around in the laboratory, studying in the library, or rushing about furiously in some form of athletic endeavor. No normal male should even think of seeking female companionship at that time...
...When you sit around the breakfast table as a boy and hear politics discussed daily, you are bound to develop an interest," he says. He was elected mayor of Newton in 1929, announced at his inauguration: "I want to make it plain that it is going to be my endeavor to run this city as nearly as possible along business lines." Nosed out for the Republican nomination for Senator by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in 1936, he was appointed by old friend Leverett Saltonstall, then governor, to fill out Lodge's unexpired second term when Lodge went...
...Mont television network sought permission Monday to television the game in the New York area, along with this week's Yale-Princeton and Columbia-Navy games. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's TV committee, in rejecting the offer, said it was "amazed that the Du Mont network should endeavor to break down a program with which the network is thoroughly familiar...