Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just this negative quality of the figures that may cause the more hopeful supporters of the Reading Period qualms of uneasiness. At the end of the first full year under the new system it was announced that the averages of the A, B, and high C, men were bettered and the lower grade men somewhat lowered. One would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body...
Briefly, production may be considered as making things to sell. A more specific definition would be, that part of manufacturing which takes the raw material or semi-finished material, and carries it to the stage which makes it ready for delivery to the customer. Production, thus, is really a process of development of some material, making it ready for the use of those who-will require it, either in process or for consumption...
...great majority of cases the production field takes fewer men from the liberal arts college than any of the other great divisions of business. Men trained in physics or chemistry may go into production work and some of the similar companies where less technical training is required, as for example, manufacturing of furniture or sand paper. Many men learn the process without an engineering background. In general, however, the way is long and tedious, and the very things which make for success in other fields are not so important when dealing with the various phases of production work...
...replacement of this method by one less damaging of the resources of the country is obviously an essential to prosperity, and the policy of the United States has been directed toward this end. Whatever slight injustice may be done a discontented general whose revolt might have succeeded but for our influence, the people at large are certainly far better off and there is always hope that the day when elections will mean something may come in the near future and take away the necessity for the more violent expressions of opinion...
...poplars, with a cast directed by a former member of the 47 Workshop. With the altruistic spirit typical of better-class Vagabonds, he sought information as to how this might be enjoyed by other students, and discovered that performances will be given this evening and tomorrow at 8.15. Students may secure tickets at the door for one dollar. The method recommended for the untaxied is to take a Jamaica Plain car at Park Street, and get off at Eliot Street. No seats are reserved; the implication to timeliness is obvious...