Word: clerking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...theme is a typical Galsworthy one--"let the strong pity the weak." We have seen it in "The Fugitive" and less clearly, in "The Pigeon." William Falder, a junior law clerk, forges a check to obtain money with which to run off with the woman he loves, who is married to a brute of a husband. His deed is discovered and he is summoned before the court, tried, sentenced, and imprisoned. After three years he is freed again and hunts for a job, followed everywhere by the stigma of his prison term. He finds Ruth Honeywill, the woman he loves...
Besides the announcer, the other officials, who are all from the B. A. A., will be: Referees, J. J. Norton, J. Brassil; judges, Hugh C. McGrath, M. L. Winston, P. Moran, J. F. Conway; timers, V. Le Clair, Geo. V. Brown; clerk, E. V. Walsh; assistant clerk, X. McGrath...
Beginning today, circulars containing information about, and blanks to enroll in, the United States Military Camps, may be obtained at the headquarters of the Harvard Regiment, Weld 3. Questions will be answered by the sergeant in charge of Headquarters, or by the Headquarters' clerk...
Fourteen hundred and sixty-one temporary positions were filled during 1914-15, embracing 76 different kinds of work. Three hundred and forty-eight men secured work as guides: while the monitor and typewriter divisions are both well over 200. The classes having over 50 enrolled are as follows: choreman, clerk, proctor, tutor, "tutor and companion," and waiter. The highest average per man for term-time employment was $983.93 accredited to the "tutor and companion" class in which $14,609 was earned altogether. The average of the newspaper correspondents division comes next with $712.75; the "instructors" third and hotel employees fourth...
...American student, according to Professor Reed, has never been able to enjoy the privilege every foreign student possesses: the opportunity to find old books for himself, to browse about shelves untroubled by a clerk at his elbow. Although students here are as fond of reading as those across the sea, there are no counterparts in this country of book stores near Charing Cross, London, or those of Oxford and Cambridge, or the cases of books along the Seine. Here even the library stacks are closed to students, and yet one of the surest ways to become interested in books...