Word: directed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers of the Class of 1928, during the whole of the four-year undergraduate period, were all prominent athletes. In direct contrast, however, are the leaders of this year's senior class. Only one of them is a member of a university team: Rogers, hockey star, was elected treasurer. Orr, the president, is track manager, but has no other connection with the sports field. The vice-president is captain of a minor team, swimming; while the secretary is not even remotely associated with any sport...
...background, education, and training, most of which most Harvard men may be assumed to possess. The technical requirements at the start are nil; a man entering the field can learn whatever is required of him, and as he progresses, his actual knowledge of investments will increase in direct proportion to the amount of effort he puts into learning his subject. Above all, a certain intelligence, ability to master a subject and the ability to inspire confidence based on knowledge of the subject, are the primary requisites...
Once he begins to reach the point where his earning capacity is large, his income is in direct proportion to his ability to sell and to reach those who have the funds. His rewards then may become extremely large, but to a great extent they are the rewards of years spent learning what the field is all about. After ten or fifteen years a partnership, a position as department manager, or some similarly remunerative work should be within his grasp...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, as usual, would direct his side of the battle from his famed olive-green staff car, an especially built and armored railway carriage containing every implement required by a Generalissimo...
...Proposal. In Philadelphia, 140 years ago, met the first general assembly of the Presbyterian church. The women kept their silence. Nearly 100 years later the first woman's executive committee of Home Missions was appointed. Since then women have become increasingly vocal in the church, but in the direction of the church they have had no voice. When the various boards of the church were reorganized in 1922 several women were given important positions but outside of their own individual organizations their advice and votes were not requested. So great was feminine indignation that three years later the General...