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...found himself at the head of just about the sorriest school system in the country. It was riddled with corruption, its buildings were shabby, its textbooks antiquated; 4,000 of its teachers held nothing more than temporary certificates that could be revoked on a politician's whim. Nonteaching jobs were given out as patronage, and the third floor of the administration building was notorious as a distribution center of political plums. Things were so bad that the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools came very near to placing Chicago on its blacklist...
There are companions to suit any whim: athletes, scholars, clubmen, dilletantes, and worried pre-meds...
...pounder, when he wants something done, he offers it as a polite suggestion. But if it isn't done, Price is apt to remind a deputy: "When I make a suggestion. I don't mean it to be ignored." His aides have learned that he has "a whim of iron." He always uses the direct approach, either phones a man or sees him. writes no memos, hates even to dictate letters...
Each resort had its own tone-or tried to. Tuxedo Park was the home of the tuxedo, frosty formality, and an Autumn Ball that still kicks off New York's debutante season. Like most resorts, it was built by a millionaire with a whim of iron. In the winter of 1885-86, Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters...
...this fall the biology professor has filled out forms or written letters--depending on the whim of the medical school involved--for over 64 students. Since each student brings in recommendation forms from an average of five medical schools, the assistant professor has so far been responsible for the handling of over 300 separate letters. Aside from the sheer volume of the paper work he must handle, the professor must conjure up impressions of students who took Biology 1 as long ago as three years. For this he relies on reports submitted by the student...