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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reality. It is entirely possible that a student could deliver the same, memorized talk at every house all summer long, but if he did it would be by his own choice. Every family has different needs and consequently different responses to us and the products we sell. If we fail to respond flexibly to different circumstances as we are trained to do, then it is our own fault. The memorized talk is to provide a foundation; the rigid schedule is to provide direction. It would take years to become bored with the presentation, even if it were given in exactly...
...basic fact about selling books with Southwestern is that it is no more than an opportunity to succeed, and an equal opportunity to fail. As articles in The New York Times (June 10, 1973) and Time magazine (June 25, 1973) emphasize, every single Southwestern salesman has the same training, the same products, the same supervision, and the same opportunity. What a student does with that opportunity is entirely up to him. Not everyone finds that he likes the job, and that's his prerogative. But to claim that he was misled or made to do things he wasn't expecting...
...laud the hundreds of thousands of CBers who have polluted the air waves with their gibberish, but you mention only in passing that the FCC is having problems with these people. What you fail to say is that the band was designed to be used by the increasing number of businesses that want to be able to communicate with their people in the field. If people want to get on the air just to "chew the rag," they could become radio amateurs (hams). That would give them not just one band but many more...
...Harvard Medical School uses a pass-fail system of grading in the preclinical portion of the curriculum and does not calculate class standings. Grades are given, however, in the clinical years, and the grades A and B are considered honor grades. Since students do not take all of the same clinical courses, it is difficult to compare overall performance. However, all students are required to take "core" clerkships in medicine and surgery. The Registrar has reviewed the records of all students graduating in 1974 and 1975 and has calculated the percentage receiving honor grades in both medicine and surgery...
...read today's "The News in Review" page with great interest and some appreciation. I could hardly fail to discern the sense of offended egalitarianism and outraged activism that informs each of the four or five pieces written by your correspondents. Indeed it is a response to the important events and significant injustices that do occur in the community; the University Daily should not hesitate to publish such stories in an informed, responsible and if need be, dramatic fashion...