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...figurehead editor, Dr. Finley is at his book-lined office on the Times's tenth floor each morning at 9 a. m. He writes a daily editorial, participates each noon in the editorial conference of the publisher, managing editor and editorial writers...
...reasons block the way to a P.B.H. triumvirate that would rule actively and well. It is not unfair to say that the president has tended to be a figurehead, while his prime minister, the graduate secretary, has held the reins. From such a revelation it must not be inferred that the president is the graduate secretary's tool; the emptiness of his offices is often because another activity has occupied most of his attention. There is danger, however, that the president will be a china doll unless he drop outside attachments and concentrate his time in P.B.H. by accepting such...
Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...
William Rush was not long satisfied with figurehead carving. Bemoaning the fact that he never had time to learn marble cutting, he did portraits of Washington, Franklin. Voltaire, Rousseau, Tilliam Penn, Lafayette, even carved a huge wooden crucifix for the Catholic Church of St. Augustine in Philadelphia. In 1844 an anti-Catholic mob destroyed...
After his retirement as headmaster of the Taft School in June of this year, he was elected president of the Connecticut Merit System Association. No figurehead, he gave up a planned trip to Murray Bay and worked through the heat of the summer months, developing this organization. He literally stumped the entire State, delivering talks before large audiences whom he described as follows: "Their lack of knowledge on this vital subject is appalling, but, once informed, their enthusiasm for our movement is equally encouraging." In the short space of three months, Mr. Taft has lifted an old but relatively obscure...