Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...registered at and frequently visited ten of the best employment agencies in New York City. . . . My advertisement for a position in the New York Sunday paper which specializes in that field brought no results. . . . As advertisements appear in the papers I have answered them. I have had but one reply. Alas! the interview produced only an invitation to dinner! (It was not accepted...
...years ago Dentist Coulson sold $25,000 worth of bonds, ordered a carillon for the Cathedral. Last year the Cathedral's North Tower, which was to hold the bells, still existed only on paper. Dr. Coulson sold the rest of his securities-$42,000 worth-and moved into an old people's home, to save enough to get the tower started so that he could hear his bells before he dies. For this good Episcopalian, last week was a happy one. Not only was the tower under way but the carillon arrived from England. The bells were installed...
...Fists flying, James Aldige jumped in, captured one bandit, forced the others to flee. Then he dragged his captive to a telephone while he called the police. They caught the other two. Few hours later, when James Aldige's city editor read about this adventure in a rival paper, asked why James Aldige had not reported it, he replied: "I didn't think it was a story...
...Every man has his ghost" is a slight over statement, but it still suggests a condition that exists in most colleges today and harasses the instructors who are correcting prepared essays. Ghost writing of all degrees, varying from outside assistance merely in organizing a paper all the way to the composition of a finished product with notes and all, done independently of the student, still prevails to a certain extend at Harvard, despite all efforts to blot it out. As long as it continues to exist, neither the long theses nor the short essays prepared outside of class will achieve...
...best means, however, to prevent the occurrence of ghost writing in a course, is to have the instructor who corrects the papers establish close relations with all the members of the class, and have interviews with them before each paper is due to criticize their outlines and bibliographies. Very few students will go to a "ghost" if they have already done most of the work themselves. In this way the small percentage of the college who cause so much trouble might be dissuade from their practices; and the major drawback to the custom of assigning essays removed. After that, little...