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President Suzzallo, who has been a Carnegie Trustee since 1919, was once (1926) board chairman. He will still have the benefit of President Emeritus Pritchett's experience when he takes office in August. In addition to the Carnegie presidency, Dr. Suzzallo has other important chores which will keep him occupied for some time to come. He has not yet finished his work of coordinating the educational activities of the Government as director of President Hoover's advisory Committee on Education for which he temporarily dropped a study of U. S. graduate schools for the Carnegie Foundation...
...most necessary in this age, the wherewithal to make profitable use of leisure time. Acquaintances with books and the library are renewed, and the result has been a better ordered life than formerly. The strain and pressure of the business world is to some extent counterbalanced. Finally, the benefit to the college itself, to its morale, its purpose, can not be minimized. Too often have those who wail against hilarious alumni and the general problem which they create failed to realize that in most cases the colleges have offered them nothing but athletic events as the connecting link with alma...
Impartial House observers rate him thus: no debating legislator, he has specialized in the dull but important committee work behind legislation. A thoroughgoing "regular" Republican, he follows the lead of his State colleague Floor Leader John Quillin Tilson, exerts his quiet influence at every turn for the benefit of reputable well-established Business & Industry. His term expires March...
...this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth. No, sir. You see, in the U. S. when somebody appears before us in person, we give him the benefit of the doubt, and take for granted that he was born. . . . My parents were Cherokee Indians. Of course, our people don't claim to have come over on the Mayflower or anything like that, but we met 'em at the dock when they landed...
...seems that he is a little too anxious to discover just what particular poems were influenced by a particular does of laudanum. But this is a literary game highly enjoyed in some of the best company, and at worst, a small point. If reading a biography can approach the benefit of reading the original, this book does. It is a fascinating account of one of the most fascinating figures in literature...