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...Webster of the Vocational High School was quoted by TIME: "The American women want bobbed hair . . . The new style . . . has created a new demand for a particular kind of service. This demand is as real as is the demand for dressmakers or milliners." Board of Education President A. P. Ortquist retorted: "It is criminal to spend the taxpayers' money to teach girls to bob hair and clean fingernails." (TIME noted on March 2, 1925 that the Daisy Chain ceremony would continue at Vassar, even though critics condemned it as "cheap and vulgar," resembling "a bathing-beauty contest...
...school of a beauty specialists' course. More than SO would-be bobbers and manicurists having registered, there was every indication that the Board of Education would bear him out, even at an estimated expenditure of $10,000. The course's Chief opponent was A. P. Ortquist, President of the Board. Said he: "It is criminal to spend the taxpayers' money to teach girls to bob hair and clean fingernails...
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