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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divisional plan allows a man; a mediocre student may develop in four years to the point where he may prove, at the end, that he is worthy of a degree with honors. In order that the award of degrees may be faithful to this theory, which is a sound one, it seems unjust that such a man should miss the prize he has earned because of a slip in perhaps, his sophomore year, when he was not yet of honors calibre. As long as, a senior's course record is satisfactory, it should not prove a belated handicap when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECESSIONAL | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

...though the Van Sweringens may handle the stocks and bonds, it is Mr. Bernet who has most to do with making the engines go and the cars follow them. In 1916 he took the Nickel Plate, commonly known as "a streak of rust," and quickly made it a sound and paying railway. In 1927 he was transferred to the Erie (not to be confused with the Wheeling & Lake Erie) and rapidly rehabilitated this over-capitalized dividend-passer. Last week was announced his appointment as president of both the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Pere Marquette, these making the third and fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...discussion of the report on Vocational Counsel which has recently appeared in the CRIMSON, must be prefaced by the statement that the committee has done an excellent piece of work they have analyzed not only the problem but the method of an attempted solution in an extremely sound manner. Furthermore, they have obtained a clear insight into the needs of undergraduates and have made a penetrating study of the possibilities of meeting those needs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DALY DISCUSSES STUDENT COUNCIL VOCATION REPORT | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

...rather visionary proposal. The good will of the Harvard faculty had been won in 1878, to a considerable extent by the work of Miss Abby Leach, who had come to Cambridge and taken private instruction from Professors Child, Goodwin and Greenough in English, Greek and Latin respectively. Her sound scholarship (she later served as a professor at Vassar) leveled many objections to collegiate instruction of women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL CELEBRATE SEMI-CENTENNIAL FRIDAY MORNING | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

...Picture Producers is from 150 to 175 players. Weekly pay checks for such positions run high, ranging from $350 to $600. But the average musician out of work is not qualified for the job. Only men of highest calibre are equipped for the delicate work of recording for synchronized sound films. And the cinema studios are already beginning to cut down the size of their recording personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musicians' Plight | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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