Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite growing sentiment in favor of graduate work as a means of obtaining satisfactory employment, the Alumni Placement Bureau still has a great chance to fit the 'mere' college graduate to suitable employment. Specialized training is of little use to those who in actual practice fail to reach the heights of business procedure. Those who consider a graduate school degree as an open sesame to responsible positions should remember that the rise to such positions is governed by forces created in earlier training, and in college. Emphasis for college alumni who omit Graduate School work should be placed...
...flood of periodicals mocking the accepted lies of the cigarette vendors are truly interpreted, an interval of relative honesty in advertising may be in the offing. In either case, gentlemanly perjury of the sort to which this company invited Mr. Lewis to sell his name cannot fail to draw the contempt and distrust of the sagacious reader upon the advertiser...
Time trials have been held regularly during the last two weeks and their aggregate results will be the basis for determining the Princeton meet selections. The men who fail to make the trip are to take part in the Greater Boston Intercollegiates which take place at the same time...
Concerning the arrangements for Freshmen who fail admission to a House this Spring Dean A. C. Hanford made the following statement last evening: "As soon as all the Houses have made their selections and the men have been notified, the Dean of the College will send a letter to each man who has not been admitted, informing him of this fact, and advising him, if he so desires, to go to University C and place his name on the waiting list for any vacancy which may occur. The waiting list will be a general list for all of the Houses...
...these advantages fail to convince the gentlemen who have made Columbia famous as the Home of Optometry, no doubt they will be entranced by the scholarship of Mr. Chesley. Etymology is his forte, for he explains that "spiritonomy" is a new word, part Anglo-Saxon and part Greek. And Columbia psychologists may be interested...