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...compilation of a large pile of notes, he says, indicates a lot of work but is no sign that anything has been learned. To absorb knowledge a student must master his economics or history himself and not rely on pages of printed words to do the job, Perry points out whenever he is advising a pupil...
...Seniors, interviewed during the last year were about all its one Director and two Executive Secretaries could handle. If more Sophomores and Juniors are to use the facilities of the Office, which they should do if they want to reap the greatest gains, it must expand its size to absorb them. And it must also expand its aims with an eye to getting more students actual jobs, if Harvard graduates are to keep step with the horde of graduates from other colleges throughout the country...
...Continental. But Continental was so suspiciously quiet that Detroit guessed it was glad to get rid of the job. Car makers felt that Continental could make motors faster than K-F could use them and so could not make money on the comparatively small production K-F could absorb. Nor was the outlook for bigger K-F production bright. The straight-from-the-shoulder facts last week were that, even in a still tight auto market, Kaisers and Frazers were not selling too well...
Ross had asked her over to "absorb the atmosphere" of the office. She was taking care not to absorb too much. "To please them," she says, "I'll go down there two or three days a week...
...causes are given for the Varsity's revival: the mass return of older, tested performers like Jack Fisher, Pete Garland, Wes Flint (captain), Bill Jackson, and Gene Harrigan and their spirit-producing willingness to absorb coaching finesse; and the quality of the coaching Head-coach Mikkola's reputation is worldwide. Freshman coach Ed Flanagan, whose record at Andover established him as one of the country's leading shot and field specialists, is new here...