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...make of him. One testing expert has told me that a man choosing his career should give but one per cent weight to the results of tests. We believe interests to be the best guide and urge men to put trust in following theirs. For the most part, people shun the things they do badly and concentrate on the things they do well. Practice is thus backed by interest. Naturally student activities will not be graduate activities, but by a method of interest analysis outlined in our 1931 report we show men how to relate past interests to possible future...
...ushers, headed by Shun Kelp are as follows: C. N. Breed, Jr., N. I. Cahners, S. R. Calloway, G. V. Comfort, F. S. Deland, John Doorman, J. G. Duffey, W. S. Fits, Jr., Braman Gibbs, W. D. Harwick, F. J. Lane, N. P. Legate, F. R. Moseley, Jr., R. S. Play fair, B. C. Rigs, and S. D. Warren...
...local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side of the issues discussed, avoiding an ex cathedra tone...
...Newton paragraph on Living with Ourselves: "It is a fine art of life to know how to do it. Few of us have mastered the art, hence we are afraid. We shun loneliness; we do not know the secret of solitude-a very different thing. First, we must face the facts, especially the things that make us hateful to ourselves and others, and deal with them...
...their retreats by the thousands last week, slinking away to shudder and die in gutters and alleys. James Lorenz Nicholes, famed ratkiller, well knows the limitations of a rat's wisdom. A rat can distinguish between two kinds of food, may prefer one to the other or shun both. Put three kinds of victuals before a rat and it will confusedly gobble all. Applying this principle, Ratkiller Nicholes was busily ridding Chicago-temporarily, at least-of several million of its rats. Last week, his work done, he left for St. Louis...