Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for this is not difficult to see. At the start, the runner, messenger, or Junior clerk is doing work that requires no more intelligence than a bright boy just out of grammar school and his services are worth no more than the same bright boy. While he is performing these lowly tasks, however, he is getting the "feel" of the business, which is most essential. He is learning not only what investment banking is all about, but he is learning the way in which it ties into other industries; not only the difference between a stock and a bond...
...Athletic Building. The competition which is open to all Sophomores in good standing will last until May 20. Ross pointed out that the competition would be light with practically no work until after vacation. The winner will be assistant manager next year and manager in his Senior year. The runner up in the competition will be manager of the second team next year...
...uprising in China must now give their place in the public eye to an impending dispute that is of more personal interest to the people of the United States. Although the imbroglio in which this country and Great Britain have become involved over the sinking of an alleged rum-runner does not arise from conflicting opinions of Nationalists or Revolutionists, it is a matter of internal government that threatens to become a question of international importance...
Tonight's game was played from scratch, no handicaps being allowed either team. Harvard's entrance in to the open tournament marked the first time a college team has participated in the competition since the Yale trio, led by Winston Guest, was runner-up to the Brooklyn Riding and Driving Club for the championship two years...
...Harold R. Mixsell, hale squash oldster of Manhattan's Princeton Club, that his new softball style is even more baffling than the slam-banging game he used to play. Last week, it won for him, with great ease, his fourth consecutive national veterans' squash championship. Runner-up: William Murray Lee of the Columbia University Club...