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Dwight Eisenhower has been heard to refer to his oval, pastel-green White House office as "the maelstrom." Like other Presidents before him, he chafes at the number of visitors and routine chores (including some 200 signatures a day) that drain presidential time and energy away from the task of setting and steering the nation's course. He has succeeded in snipping away a little red tape (e.g., he shifted to the Chief of Naval Operations the chore of signing naval-officer assignment papers), but every now & then a presidential aide will hear him bark like a drill sergeant...
...course, some representatives are up on the course offerings in their department, and can offer valuable advice. A few even seek out freshmen in the elementary courses in their fields to offer guidance. But since almost every teacher in each department, is expected to pitch in at this advising chore, some advisors are bound to be insufficiently informed about courses to help in planing students' curricula...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...tall, white-haired man steps into the Dunster House Common Room to wind the grandfather's clock in the corner. "No one else wants to do it," smiles Gordon M. Fair, the Master of Dunster, "so being an engineer, I've taken over the task myself." Assuming this chore is characteristic of Fair's universal interest in Dunster and its activities. Stressing his confidence in the undergraduate, Fair encourages a liberal House policy and was one of the first Masters to urge extended parietal rules...
...plan never got off paper. Ahf became a weekly chore with lessons applied only to the next week's assignment. Section men in other G.E. courses have plodded through papers noting only the more flagrant deviations in syntax, spelling and style. Ahf instructors have divorced the content of weekly assignments from the students' range of interest and experience...