Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While he was taking things easy, Campbell joined the Thirteen Club ("All lungers-twelve of 'em died"), became editor of the Tucson Citizen, and went to Mexico to cover a revolution. When the Republican National Committee bought the Citizen, Campbell, though a Republican himself, quit ("I couldn't take dictation from any pressure group...
...Benedict Center was established in 1940 by a group of Harvard Catholics as a somewhat more independent version of the Newman Clubs (for Catholic students) in other universities. But when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a full-dress academic institution, teaching Greek, church history, philosophy, literature and hagiography. More than 200 students were converted to Catholicism there, and 103 members and guests of the club felt called to become priests or nuns. This year, 50 members, about 20 of them converts, paid $200 a semester. Four nights...
Washington's undergraduate Management Club had spent months interviewing employers in the Seattle area, and the university employment service had collaborated in arranging the seminar. One basic conclusion about the local job market: for certain specialists, jobs will still be plentiful. Dieticians, nurses, teachers, metallurgical and ceramic engineers should have no trouble at all. Chemical and mechanical engineers will also be in fairly good demand, though some will have a better chance if they go East after graduation. Nonspecialists, however, have a different kind of problem...
...Mumble. The Management Club had still more do's & don'ts to offer. It had written them up in a booklet (How to Sell Yourself), which gave everything from a handy list of Seattle industries to how to write an application letter. But most important, said the booklet, "You stand or fall at the interview." Anything from "radical ideas" to a "limp, fishy handshake," could ruin a job hunter's chances. Things not to do during an interview: "Don't interrupt, don't beg, don't be breezy, don't talk too much...
Prints and slides will be judged by M. I. Elis, president of the Boston Camera Club, and James M. Carpener, assistant professor of Fine Arts. The judges will hold a public showing of the color slides in the Union Upper Common Room on the final contest day. Black and white prints will be judged in a private contest with the point of choosing a "print of the year...