Word: assistant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shakespeare have has yet been seriously questioned. Among the great authors there is choice enough to satisfy differing tastes. Moreover, the spirit of the rules announces itself to be rightly revolutionary. "The primary object is not to exact performance of a task prescribed", says the pamphlet, "but to assist in the formation of a habit--the habit of reading good literature...
...graduate out of a job is a bad advertisement for the University," and that a graduate in a job for which he is not suited is also undesirable that the Harvard Alumni Association has for several years maintained its Appointment Office. The purpose of the office is to assist the graduates of the University in securing permanent business and technical positions, which include, broadly, all non-teaching positions; to help them to find the work for which they are best fitted; and to be of assistance to employers inn their search for exceptional men. A full record of each applicant...
...conditions that promise advancement and success. The office is constantly endeavoring to broaden its scope and to extend its facilities; Harvard men who are considering positions should give it an opportunity to show what it can do. It makes no charge for the services it renders, trying only to assist all who register by finding them jobs--jobs for which they are fitted and in which they will make good...
...Reconstruction Unit will probably leave this country about June 28, and on arriving in France will start a three-months' program of work in that part of the devastated regions lying between Rheims and Verdun. The members of the Unit will assist in the reconstruction of towns and villages in the areas ruined by the German invasion. Pinon, a town which is being rebuilt this summer by the French Government, will serve as a model for other reconstruction work...
...collegiate business school," he wrote, "should aim, to assist the individual student in his early personal adjustment to business surroundings. The need for help in the transition from college to business is an important reason for the development of these schools, and therefore the personal problems of the young man as he adjusts himself to his new environment should have serious consideration. It is not probable that many of the more frequent mistakes of the beginner in business may be prevented if he has been given a proper perspective on the importance of studying his surroundings and the personality...