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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department which draws in college men is the department of training, which in many cases is a branch of the Department of Personnel. Due to greater ability, potentially at least, to teach, many large establishments like Macy's frequently put the college men through different departments in rapid succession, with the idea that they may be used in the various phases of training. It is in these training departments that many college people, both men and women, remain sometimes for a number of years, as ability to train sales and other operating personnel is not only interesting, but well paid...
...books which will be issued at least in part this year,--the Nonesuch Shakespeare and the Golden Cockerel Chaucer--will possibly, in years to come, take their place among such gems of typography as the Kelmscott Chaucer, the Davies Bible, and the Ashendene Dante...
Verbosity has been disposed of at the expense of unity. The objection that editorials are too wordy may be founded on actual fact, but they are, in most cases, at least an attempt to crystallize the general consensus of opinion; they try to be rather the expression of the student body than of the writer. Whether they are read or not, they are a criterion of student opinion that is accepted by the world at large. If a multiplicity of individual ideas is to be substituted for the digest offered by the editor, the force of the single expression will...
Modern literature courses are rarities on the curriculum of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. During 1928-29 the omission of courses such as English 26 and English 16 has left the catalogue barren indeed for the student searching a course in contemporary poetry or prose. At least one regular course covering the twentieth century literary field and its tendencies would undoubtedly find a sufficient patronage to warrant...
After several unsuccessful attempts to procure an opponent for the 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...