Word: branching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This may appear a trivial topic, and probably there are faults in our social system more heinous than grammatical innaccuracy or "lowbrow" talk. But the misuse of the English language so prevalent on every college campus indicates, deeper down, a state of laxity reigning over almost every branch of conduct. Men whose conversation is deficient either in grammar or in taste not only offend their hearens but reveal themselves incapable of verbal self-control...
...stationed at the Boston Navy Yard. The match will be played off in the fencing room at Hemenway starting at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Since the University has no sabre team, one has been invited from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to engage the sailors in this branch. In the foils and in the duelling swords, the following Crimson men will start: Foils, Captain Burke Boyce '22, W. R. Brewster '22, and E. L. Lane '24; duelling swords, J. S. Barss '22, and F. W. Saunders...
Coach Wachter, making the first address, outlined briefly the plans for the coming season and urged upon the men the three essentials to a successful season, condition, teamwork, and spirit. Coach Tolbert then accented the importance of these last two points, showing that in every branch of sport, the University system of coaching depends upon mutual cooperation and team-work rather than in the work of any individual stars...
...British serve long apprenticeship at salaries that would not be attractive to us but they have carried British Trade to all parts of the world. After an apprenticeship in a Canadian Bank of some seven or eight years, a man is eligible for assignment as manager to a branch bank at a salary of about $8000 a year. Unattractive? Financially, yes, if you place against that the $10,000 a year you may expect to make selling, say shoe-strings. But are you sure that you are one of the men who is to make $10,000? A comparatively...
...club so far, Mr. Edward V. Hickey of the Gillette Safety Razor Company addressed a crowd that filled the Trophy Room of the Union to the doors last night. In outlining the system of marketing employed by his corporation, Mr. Hickey, who is head of the German branch of the Gillette Company, described the existing economic distress in that country and prophesied a complete financial collapse due to the depreciation of the German mark...