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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters like these drew almost one-hundred percent response from the Seniors a year ago. Many of the recipients previously had not known about the Student Placement Office. A series of career conferences for 1948-1949, similar to those held last winter, is also being planned by Teele's office. These meetings, held at regular intervals during the winter months, bring to the College leaders in field such as marketing and publishing who speak and answer student's questions...
Dudley Hall, which had the largest turnout at its first practice four weeks ago, had trouble mustering an 11-man team Friday. It had a total of thirteen men to plug the large holes bored by an undefeated Kirkland House offense for 32 minutes of play...
...decisive meeting separate the drive for a useful war memorial from complete failure. Two groups have the power to adopt or throw out the Saltonstall Committee's plan for a $60,000 inscription in Memorial Church. One group, the directors of the Alumni Association, met eleven days ago, and, without first finding out the sentiment of its membership, voted to accept the Saltonstall proposal. The other group, the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs, meets on November...
Thirty years ago, France's finest orchestra, the 90-year-old Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, was embarked on a U.S. warship, destination New York. At their first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor...
Died. George McConnell, 93, oldtime Indian fighter and baseball player (legend credits him with originating the curve ball); in Los Angeles. Some 70 years ago, Billiard Fan McConnell reputedly discovered that "English" could be used on baseballs, then organized a ball team that was undefeated for several seasons before batters caught...