Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Habberler will also deliver two lectures during his stay at Harvard, one today and one next Tuesday. Although a comparatively young man. Dr. Habberler is already a statistician of considerable reputation, and in his particular field, that of index numbers, he is unrivaled in Europe. He is lecturing in this country as the representative of the German univerities on a fellowship supported by the Rockefeller Foundation...
Through the agency of their press American universities are rapidly extending the field of their usefulness in the publication of valuable books and also in periodical work. In undertaking a new review, American Literature, the Duke University Press promises an interesting addition to the branch of magazine enterprise which includes such notable examples as The Yale Review and the University of Virginia Quarterly...
University press publications in the past have enabled the distribution of considerable material which otherwise might not have seen print and would have been lost to large circulation among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from...
...Insurance sales field there are a great many college men who have been selling successfully, and there is a constant call from the insurance companies for more college men for sales work. The methods vary. Some give definite and adequate training courses, paying salary while men are in training; others require that a man work himself into the company and the pay is entirely on a commission basis...
Even though Horween will not arrive from Chicago in time for today's workout, the spring conditioning will be started at Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon under the direction of Coach J. L. Knox '98, mentor of the University second team. Leaving after the conclusion of this week's practice, Horween will be absent for about seven days but will return to Cambridge to take charge of the final week of the spring session...