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...sixth annual Harvard Conference on Careers from February 13 to March 20 was announced by the Office of Student Placement yesterday. The aim of the conference, according to Louis L. Newby, placement officer, is to stimulate the interest of students in different career fields so that they will avail themselves of the placement office's facilities for finding jobs after graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Career Conference Starts Wednesday With Journalism Talks | 2/7/1952 | See Source »

...these can be cleared up once he talks them ever with someone trained to understand them. The problems vary from mechanical methods of note-making to what Perry calls the more personal "hopes and fears, values and choices that influence academic work." Many students who are receiving honor grades avail themselves of this opportunity to learn how to improve their efficiency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bureau of Study Counsel Provides Tips in Exam Writing, Class Work | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Idler's production of "A Doll's House" is a lively one, and English 160 students should avail themselves of this opportunity to get the play under their belts pleasantly...

Author: By Peter K. Solmssen, | Title: The Playgoer | 12/8/1951 | See Source »

...nearly a century the French dictionary Larousse (a sort of Gallic Webster's) defined "Greek" as meaning, among other things, roué, fripon, escroc-1) rakehell, 2) swindler, 3) crook. For nearly a century the Greek government has bombarded the Quai d'Orsay with complaints, to no avail. That, said Larousse stiffly, is the way Frenchmen talk, and that is the way they must be reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Timeo Danaos | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Golden wheat can grow tall and strong in the deep (200 ft.) black topsoil in the valleys of central India, but the wheat has little chance against the predatory kans grass. For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail. With less & less yield from each sowing, the peasant would at last abandon his kans-infested wheatfield, blaming his ill luck on Saturn, considered an evil planet by Hindus. Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Victory over Kans | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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