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...Freshman sextet faces two difficult assignments over the week-end. Today it journeys to Concord, N. B. to encounter at 2 o'clock a strong St. Paul's School team which already has to its credit a surprising victory over the crack Yale Freshmen. On Monday it faces another strenuous contest with the powerful Dartmouth Freshmen at Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMONG THE MINORS | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

...Second, employers expect college men seeking work to have a specific objective and to speak with conviction of the choice they have made and reasons for that choice. For a college senior to define his objectives in the business world this becomes an effective aid to him in the strenuous competition for jobs which now exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moyer, of Alumini Placement Bureau, Advises Seniors "Going in to Business" | 2/9/1937 | See Source »

...President's long experience in state government as well as in federal administration before his election to the Presidency had given him an unusual preparation for the administrative tasks of the Presidency and his strenuous experience under the trying conditions of his first term made him realize the urgency of a thorough reorganization of the executive branch of the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holcombe Praises Roosevelt Proposal For Reorganization of Administration | 1/14/1937 | See Source »

...theatre, took part in the President's party for the White House office staff, another party in the East room for the White Household staff, and attended a Christmas party of the Salvation Army. Her activities during the rest of the week were every bit as strenuous. Most notable of them was her "Gridiron Widows" party, which she instituted three years ago for newshens and grass widows of all those attending the Gridiron Dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ladies' Party | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Opening a strenuous weekend with a dance at Longwood Towers at 8 o'clock Saturday night, the Pierian Sodality will present a concert at the same place Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pierian Dances Tonight, and Gives Concert Sunday Night | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

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