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Assistant Dan and Senior Tutor Harlan P. Hanson '48 describes the Kirkland man as follows: "Every year Kirkland House seeks out an outstanding yet representative group of freshmen in order that it may remain a community of intelligent, independent, unaffected young men. This community rests, as Professor Hammond has put it, on that delicate balance between 'pressure and laissexfaire, hollow heartiness and selfish indifference, sociability and isolation; in short, between the claims of the individual and those of the whole...
Before long, so many defective watches were returned that Sears advertised for a repairman. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, 23, who had been earning $3.50 a week fixing watches in the corner of a delicatessen shop in Hammond, Ind., got the job. In 1891, Sears set up a partnership with Roebuck (Sears kept two-thirds control) and rapidly expanded sales by filling his catalogue with every come-on known to the sharp retailers...
Forced into receivership last August, Detroit's 92-year-old packing house, Hammond Standish & Co., just closed down; the banks which had made heavy loans were baying too loudly. But the company's 325 employees, many of whom had been with it all their working lives, loyally decided to put the company back on its feet. A month ago, 175 of them went back to work under an agreement to collect no wages in the first two weeks, be paid after that only if the firm was back in the black. Last week President Joseph Strobl announced that...
Census. In Hammond, Ind., the Times canvassed the town's nine cemetery caretakers, concluded that since Hammond has 126,322 people underground, but only 87,594 above, the town is more dead than, alive...
...Mason Hammond '25, master of Kirkland House, announced the student Commencement Day speakers. John E. Rexine '51 of Eliot House and West Roxbury will give the Latin Oration. DeWitt S. Goodman '51 of Kirkland House and New York City will deliver a speech on "Blood Fractionation: Science in the Service...