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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN Professor G. F. Moore writes a foreword to a book, Harvard men must approach the volume with respect. And when he finds "its point of view original and the presentation not only instructive but simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation...

Author: By H. W. Taeusch, | Title: A System of Life | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

Many young men, not desiring to do sales work, and not trained for production, find openings in the office end of business, working up through the various aspects of the accounting and financial management fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...costs you are making money, if your costs are ahead of your sales, you are losing money, you are in the red, and somebody will get jumped on." It is in the accounting department that the facts of the business are discovered. It is there that the operating executives find out the progress that the company is making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...battle royal between undergraduates and alumni has set the Cornell campus agog. When a distinguished group of the latter faction recently met in take measures for the regeneration of football at Cornell, they were surprised to find the general sentiment of the student body opposed to their efforts. The Cornell Sun explained the attitude of the students by saying that "the undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the big-salaried coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR AT CORNELL | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard scholars, the authorities have been forced to postpone for at least a year the second competition for the Putnam Prize, which was inaugurated last Spring in the cultural contest with Yale. The belated start made by the officials leaves no time for any further efforts to find at willing rival; and so the University will not be called upon to defend the laurels won for the first time last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unable to Find Rival For Cultural Contest This Year | 3/13/1929 | See Source »

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