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...emphasized the practical administrator as well as scholarship. Mr. Garrison has had adequate training along these lines. This law school was the first to demand six months' apprenticeship in a law office before awarding a degree. It was also the second school west of the Alleghanies to demand two years of previous college education. During his administration, it has continued to emphasize the practical aspects of a Law School...
Promptly to work in a Brooklyn refinery went Son Herbert. After an eight-year apprenticeship, he was promoted to one of the Rockefeller central committees -old Standard Oil's committee on manufacturing. When the Oil Trust was busted in 1911, Herbert Pratt was made vice president of the New York fragment, now Socony Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. And as he mounted to the presidency and on to the board chairmanship of the second largest member of the Standard group, the name Pratt grew as potent in the oil industry's gasoline age as it had been in kerosene...
...done by John H. McEvers, special assistant to Attorney General Cummings who had been sent from Washington to clean up the last big gangster tax case left on the Federal docket. Prosecutor McEvers passed over Flegenheimer's novitiate in crime, which began when he served an apprenticeship under the late Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was interrupted when Flegenheimer went into hiding after his indictment two years ago, and officially ended when, terrified by the Government's bloody drive against the nation's mobsters, he gave himself up at Albany last Thanksgiving Day. What Prosecutor McEvers had to reveal...
...revealed himself as not just an actor of bit parts, but as a playwright who can turn out the sort of thing the Group wants to do. Unconsciously he gathered material for Awake and Sing! during his 20- year residence in The Bronx. Now 28, he spent his professional apprenticeship as a spear-carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says he wrote part of Awake and Sing! while cooking for fellow Groupers in their...
...young scholars and teachers who are already connected with the University. In any healthy organization, channels should be kept open for the infusion of vigorous new blood at the bottom of the ranks. At Harvard the corps of tutors consists for the most part of younger men serving their apprenticeship in academic life. Harvard is particularly fortunate in having such a body of reserves to draw upon. For various reasons, however, the University has been slow to take advantage of this special opportunity...