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...conditions revealed by the report, they are very much what might have been expected. Except for men planning to take graduate work and who are definitely settled upon some science or profession, only the vaguest sort of intentions are revealed. It is on this ground that the report urges the creation of the new office of Vocational Guidance to be distinct from both the Student Employment Bureau and the Alumni Appointments Office. But there is another possible interpretation of the vagueness shown by the Seniors in their replies. Rather than a need for advice, the figures more probably indicate that...
...instruction offered by this institution is purposely not of the spot-passage memorize-this-and-you'll-get-a-C sort of thing obtainable at a tutoring school. Perhaps as howhere else at Harvard this band of volunteers offers to teach men confused by the freedom of college the proper methods of correlating and assimilating the information given out in books and lectures. Proper recognition of such unselfish effort may scarcely be expected, but there are many to whom this work has been a boon in the past who will be grateful for the proposed extension of the present admirable...
Benefactor. Rare indeed are musical enterprises of any sort which have been made to pay for themselves. The Dayton Westminster Choir makes no such pretense, has for patroness the able and energetic Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott, widow of Engineer Talbott who built the Soo locks and many a railroad. Herself a good amateur musician, Mrs. Talbott was quick to see the worth in Conductor Williamson's work, to contribute generously her money and time. Aside from the choir, her interests have been manifold and great. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti...
Operating with General Escobar, last week, was the fierce and redoubtable General Francisco Urbalejo, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian. Carnage of a particularly gory sort was predicted when the half-savage but well-armed Yaqui Insurrectos and General Escobar's rebel troops clashed with the Federalistas near Torreon...
...which is by way of explaining that a pleasant, fluent style can make excellent reading out of what is essentially true. And this is what Mr. Walling has done in "Murder at the Keyhole". He has created characters of a really living and vital type, the sort of people one meets in everyday life, and it is this fact more than anything else that places "Murder at the Keyhole" distinctly above most...