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...which they believe they wish to pursue after graduation the Students' Employment Office makes a new departure. The training obtained from the work will afford much more than the usual pecuniary advantages of a summer job; it will allow a species of sampling which is impossible at present. The first-hand information gained will enable the men to check up on the career of their first selection, without running the dangers of future disappointment...
...wrote himself into a state when an ice slide recently endangered the party (TIME, Feb. 11), this time abstained from hysterics and heroics. Perhaps having heard echoes of the way some of his romantic writings have been received in the U. S., he let Harold June dictate a first-hand account of almost incredible winds in the Rockefeller Mountains...
...Yard, the Vagabond has several lectures of special interest to visit today. Count Carlo Sforza, formerly French Ambassador to Italy, will speak in Harvard 6 at 2 o'clock on "The New Fascist State", and the opportunity to add to his knowledge of this great experiment from a first-hand authority should not be missed by any vagabonder...
...wheezes, and measured snores of human sleep were reproduced in a generous but exact replica. One snored so persistently that one of our hobo companions woke, swore sleepily, and with a stick rapped the offender into startled wakefulness and silence. Perhaps some of your other subscribers have had similar first-hand experience...
Unpublished material from Whitman's manuscripts that offers opportunity for a first-hand study of his ideas and working methods...