Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crews start work at Gales' Ferry today with a new hand at the helm. This hand will endeavor to straighten out at the eleventh hour the erratic course of this year's university crews. P. J. Corderry has the hardest job on his hands in American university rowing. With an inexperienced crew and a discredited system he has 18 days in which to train a winning combination. If he can do it no coach in the country -- no, not even the famous Dr. Spaeth will be considered greater...
...certain member of the Faculty has often warned his pupils that nearly every Harvard man loses his first job because it takes him considerable time to learn that he can no longer do on Friday what he should have done on Wednesday,--as he did in college. The undergraduate does not have to reflect long to appreciate the truth of this if he will consider his own attitude toward scholastic work. He has discovered that probably the only requirement of most courses which cannot be postponed is the final examination...
...Such an attitude towards scholastic work is just the opposite of that adopted by men in college activities. There would be one thing only for a candidate to expect if he handed his manager a report a week late,--the same thing given the Harvard man in his first job. If the student can understand discipline in activities, why not in college work...
...Keith's with two comedy headliners furnishing ample amusement for a holiday audience. Lillian Shaw was excellent in her Shavian character studies. Her East Side dialect was something to hear, and hear again, and her listeners showed their appreciation of her cleverness. If she is ever out of a job, she should have no trouble in getting work with Potash and Perlmutter after her first cheerful "Helloy...
...supplement it. The adoption of the scale, say the authorities of the School, is an acknowledgment of the fact that when they have the record of a man's grades in his courses, they do not know all they should in order to recommend him for a job. Such recommendations will be made henceforward on the basis of the rating scale as well as of the man's grades in classroom work...