Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday at the Women's City Club in Boston, Constantine Ladas of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, President of the Model Council, and John Clarke of Amherst, secretary-general of the organization will speak about the coming Assembly. Harvard men who desire to attend this luncheon in order to find out more about the Mount Holyoke meeting should make reservations by letter to Miss C. V. Hayward, 84 Prescott Street, Cambridge before Thursday evening...
...poison. The latter is found in garages of course, and also in steel mills and coal mines. It is, in fact, found wherever gas is used. Unfortunately there are new poisons appearing all the time, but there is no governmental agency to investigate them. If a manufacturer wants to find out the quality of a rubber solvent, he can write to the Bureau of Standards; if he wants to find out the effects the solvent will have on his workmen, however, he is at a complete loss. Consequently he starts to use it cautiously and instead of using guinea pigs...
...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 the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed...
However, it is into the two departments. Commercial and Traffic that many graduates of Liberal Arts colleges go, and in which they may find for themselves a definite career. This career would have certain differences from a great many other businesses. The American Telephone & Telegraph Company and Associated Companies is probably the largest combined organization, and employs the largest number of people of any group in the United States. In many ways it is analogous to the Government. The ultimate salaries, while good, are probably somewhat less than would be the case elsewhere. This is more than compensated for, however...
...successful. The old system of a tedious apprenticeship, he declared, has passed, as it robbed the mind of the originality essential to leaders. Modern school and college education aims rather at sharpening the power of analysis in the individual student, thus equipping him with the means to find the issue of any problem and advance toward its solution...