Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WANTED: Position as cartoonist with newspaper or magazine art department. I am American born, a high school graduate with character, good sense of humor, and ambition to earn and hold a cartoonist's job. Have studied subject five years, done mimeograph and pen-and-ink work, sold a few cartoons. Further samples of work and complete personal history, with references, upon request...
...regard to the editorial on tutoring schools which appeared in this morning's Crimson, it would be more accurate to say that when instructors realize that they must organize their lectures, the University will have done its part--to some extent. Such survey courses as History of Religions I, Philosophy B, and many others are taught by men who know their subject thoroughly, are often fine scholars, but whose personality renders them totally unfit to teach beginners. The lectures become so disorganized that many students find it almost imperative that they attend tutoring school to get an integrated knowledge...
...tutoring schools. But the possibility of a decision for the University is not so impossible. When instructors realize that they must organize their lectures and dole out their dismal reading lists for the "C" man as well as for the honor student, then the University will have done its part. And when this happens, then the students themselves will see that twenty gruelling hours of copying and time for re-reading could be better and more cheaply spent on the course reading itself. Then, in the words of former Dean Pound on the problem, it will no longer...
...taken, carrying messages. She was Gene Cox, 13, eye-apple youngest daughter of Georgia's cantankerous Representative Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Over the protests of Doorkeeper Joe Sinnott, who feared it would "get into the newspapers" and start a rush by other doting parents to have the same done for their girls, Father Cox had Gene sworn in as his House page, for that one day. She earned a U. S. Treasury check for $4 for her 2 hours, 33 minutes of "work." At Washington's Market School, where the girls envy her acquaintance with Speaker Bankhead...
...companion book to Your Wings, Funk & Wagnalls last fall published Jordanoff's Through the Overcast, a course in weather and instrument flying done in the same pithy, well-illustrated style. By itself and packaged with Your Wings it has thus far sold 10,000 copies in the U. S., is still going at the rate of about 500 a week...