Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Electives for, as long as Harvard is a liberal arts rather than a vocational college, courses should be selected for ther own value rather than for the possible benefit which they would give in the way of training one for a vocation. This the vocational director must realize in order that he may not encroach on a field that...
Would it not be much more sensible to abolish some of these officials altogether or if they must be retained, have them chosen by a form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should...
...forthcoming enlargement of the alumni appointment office, now under Miss Ruth B. Monk, which has offered to handle the placing of Seniors as well as alumni. Since the alumni have offered this placement service, it is felt that the college should help Seniors to choose a vocation, in order to facilitate their placement by the alumni...
...average amateur trader. Somehow when he comes to sell his books in the Spring the return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...
...Shields, as President of the Trustees, demanded from University President Wayman the expulsion of six members of the faculty. To Fundamentalist Shields these members looked like Modernists. But President Wayman would make no expulsions. Followed the Shields expulsion of the whole faculty, the riot, and then a court order restraining the Shields action and making possible last week resumption of recitations, lectures at the University. It was with these things that the irate Buffalo convention dealt...