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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McLane is not bound, either by ignorance or inclination, to any one time or place or subject, and the best proof of this is in the excellent balance of his book. It contains one long poem, "Cassandra". a rather shorter one entitled "The Fig Tree", and many sonnets and miscellaneous poems of varying length. At the end of the volume is a sequence of poems some of which appeared in his previous work "Spindrift, forming an elegy...
Accuracy, efficiency, and general business ability are the requirements for the successful candidates. Men who show up well will be taken on some of the shorter Glee Club trips during the year. The man who will be chosen as assistant manager will automatically take over the posiion of manager in his Senior year...
...trips, and assisting the manager in his duties. Each candidate will be assigned to a concert and in that way all will have an opportunity to get some practical experience in the way concerts are managed. Every candidate that shows ability will be taken on some of the shorter Glee Club trips during the year. The Club will take no Christmas trip this season, but is arranging a tour during the April recess...
...Cambridge course regularly, only going to Belmont once or twice a week. Starting from the Stadium, the course that has been laid out covers seven and a half miles in all, but several short cuts have been included for use when the squad is to be sent on shorter workouts. Coaches Bingham and Farrell will be in charge of the team which will compete against M. I. T., Cornell, and Yale. The season will close with the Intercollegiates that are to be held at Van Cortland Park in New York on November...
...productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn out in our eight, nine and ten hour days as much as the founders of our country once did in twelve, thirteen and fourteen. The demand for shorter and shorter hours is thus the natural accompaniment of our industrial development. It furthermore puts continual pressure on the employers to keep their plants at the highest possible pitch of efficiency...