Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidate in a debate on a subject to be drawn from contemporary French politics, the trials to be conducted in English. The administration for awarding the prize is in the hands of the French Department of the University, which, under the terms of the competition, is at liberty to call in the aid of other instructors, of students, and of graduates, in determining the precise conditions of the competition and in selecting judges...
...infield John Prior '29 and G. E. Donaghy '29, will in all probability play first and third base respectively, the position they occupied on last year's nine. At shortstop E. H. McGrath '31, captain of last season's Freshman team seems to have the call. The choice of a second baseman is Coach Mitchell's main problem. F. E. Nugent '30 has a slight edge over A. G. Whitney '29 in the race for this post...
...During the interval between meetings the real work is carried on by a small group of nine persons, headed by a member from Poland. The advantageous feature of the Committee is that it can call upon the experts of all nations, just as it asked an Englishman and a Frenchman, specialists on tuberculosis and diseases resulting from dust, to inspect the conditions in the gold mines of South Africa...
...should slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such a crisis a Montague man can do only one thing-keep on climbing...
...Insurance sales field there are a great many college men who have been selling successfully, and there is a constant call from the insurance companies for more college men for sales work. The methods vary. Some give definite and adequate training courses, paying salary while men are in training; others require that a man work himself into the company and the pay is entirely on a commission basis...