Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first point emphasized by alumni reminiscing over their college careers is the importance of extra-curricular activities in the world of business. Unquestionably the tendency to judge graduates in search of jobs on their outside connections fully as much as on their regular scholastic record is increasing each year. Rightly or wrongly, the employer of today is likely to be just as much interested in the ability and predominance of his prospective employee in non-academic pursuits--ranging from, say, his extra-curricular American History study to his record on the athletic field, stage, or publication...
...date the Crimson has had little difficulty in downing a pick-up team in Washington and the Middies during the spring trip. Last week Coach Harry Cowles' men defeated Williams 8-1. Williams' lone point was scored, when Al Jarvis edged Dave Burt, first man for the Varsity...
...Sparrow," a comedy presented by Girvan Higginson and written by Maxwell Selser, is a disconcerted tale of a disconcerted woman. The point of the title is that since God watches the fall of the merest sparorw, surely He will keep an eye on the Thomas's, the central family of the play. He does, more or less, but He takes it off frequently enough to let them get into predicaments that would be very desperate, except that no one, particularly no one in the audience, cares very much anyway...
...scholarship device, occasioned by its recognition of the "Jeffersonian" element in American education. That great statesman proposed "to cull from every condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talent and virtue" towards an "intellectual aristocracy" serving the Republic. This, as President Conant rightly contends, was democratic to the point of being revolutionary...
These experiments on solids under high pressure have also produced seven different kinds of water. Each form has new properties; its melting point and many other qualities are different from other kinds...