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...dared ask about a "startling statement" she had made: "Young man. I never say startling things." In her yellow stucco house at South Hadley, Mass, she lives with Jeannette Marks, professor of English Literature, surrounded by big collies called such names as "Lord Wellesley" and "Ladybird Holyoke." Her motto for her students is "Poise, Purpose & Perseverance"?corrupted behind her back into "Poise, Poipose & Poiseverance." To this last week the first woman in the world to sit officially in a major international conference could add Peace. Declared Delegate Woolley...
...Foshay is now engaged as vice president of Mountain Cross Granite Co. of Salida, Col., owned by Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Chicago drugchainer. Over the Foshay desk used to hang a motto which apparently serves to temper his prosperity as well as his adversity: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
Flexner's chief complaint is that the business schools of the country are trying to short-circuit experience and to raise business to the dignity of a profession. He suggested that Harvard's motto be changed to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria...
...second debt is to the nourishing background of information and ideas which may intellectualize its efforts towards sanity. Its liberalism consists in the evaluation of first principles behind collegiate structure whether it be athletic, academic, or social. As for criticism of affairs outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack...
...paper?a single sheet printed on both sides?looked exactly like William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, but it was named The Front Page. And in place of the celebrated Hearstpaper motto: "A Paper For People Who Think," this was "A Paper For People Who Drink." It was all very gay. On the front page were seven little pictures of Miss Davies, one big picture of her in pajamas; and a bigger picture of a group of platter-lipped Ubangi natives with the caption: "Friends Meet Famous Star At Train. . . . Davies stepped off the train this morning all aglow...