Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Seniors are able to step directly into a family business or to accept employment under the auspices of friends or relatives when they graduate. Lest these men fool that because they are fortunate enough to have jobs waiting for them they are unwelcome at the Alumni Placement Office, we hasten to assure them that the facilities of this Office are as much at their command as for other students...
Sometimes they guess right, sometimes wrong; the chances are about even that the issue will be a satisfactory one, that they will stay placed and find their work congenial. It is principally to these men who are tempted to step blindly into jobs tendered by friends and relatives that the Alumni Placement Office would utter a word of caution and ex- tend what assistance...
Authorities expressed the opinion that this meeting was a preliminary step toward some now cooperative venture, such as the NRA, between government and industry...
...these youngsters. It is here that Harvard should assume moral obligations and help hundreds of urchins who will never be privileged to use its libraries and laboratories. Mr. Mahoney's Recreation Division is empowered by law to supply workers to private playgrounds with the sanction of the owner. A step in this direction was made last week when the University allowed a worker to superintend the winter sports on the ground around the Observatory. But this was a trifling concession. Since Harvard closed the Divinity School grounds some years ago, the firm of John P. Squire & Co. has far surpassed...
...means so vividly written as Reed's masterpiece, Red Star Over China is slowed down by essays on Chinese history, discussions of education and propaganda, accounts of critical battles fought in inaccessible country. Delighting in the ramifications of Chinese politics, Edgar Snow seems to step aside to discuss every war lord who fought Chiang Kaishek, made peace with him, got mad, led a campaign against the Reds or accepted an alliance with them to fight Japan...