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John Bunn. If the centre jump is the news-of-the-year in basketball. John Bunn is the man-of-the-year. John Bunn is basketball coach at Stanford. He served his apprenticeship at the University of Kansas where he played and later taught under famed Coach Forrest C. ("Phog"') Allen-within reverent earshot of Physical Education Professor James Naismith, basketball's inventor. In 1930 he took over basketball at Stanford, where the game had long been regarded as "sissy." He began to experiment with a jumpless game. Four years ago he tried it out, got Southern California...
First is the need to save money for further study. Students in this situation are not trying to establish themselves in business; they do not want "career" jobs involving years of apprenticeship. They want work which they can take today and leave tomorrow and which will pay as handsomely as possible, they should not look for "opportunities in business," but for plain jobs not labeled "for college men only...
...degree of Ed.M. and the A.M. in Teaching are not based upon the passing of a certain number of courses, but upon achievement in examinations and in apprenticeship...
Just about the most promising American Communist who has made good in the Soviet Union is famed Stepan Semenovich Dybets. After doughty apprenticeship in the I. W. W. he was called from a Hoboken dockyard to Russia in the early days of the revolution, devoted himself tirelessly to instructing comrades in "American technique." Soon he became a Soviet citizen, presently returned to tour U. S. industrial centres and buy, for the U. S. S. R. a total of more than $30,000,000 worth of automotive machinery, plans, parts, cars and tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just...
Henderson kept up with his music at Princeton, whence he was graduated in 1876, three years before Woodrow Wilson. He served his apprenticeship on the New York Tribune, worked for brief spells on the Morning Journal (now the New York American), Financial & Mining News, as business manager of the Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When...