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...where you could. You have postponed the burdens of full payment of debts, of rent, of loans, or mortgages, of those whom fate and not their own shortcomings have handicapped. You have helped tactfully with food, with coal, with clothing, those of your friends who were facing a more strenuous period than you were yourself, as well as those strangers a mile away whom formerly you knew not even...
...lacrosse season will be formally inaugurated this afternoon when two tentative University teams meet at 4.30 o'clock on the Business School field in the first game of the season. The game culminates a period of strenuous preseason practice under the direction of Coach Sayles, and his assistants...
...unsuitable a time this is scarcely need be pointed out. The strenuous work of the mid-year period prevents preparation for these examinations in January; and the one available week in February is of little use for the kind of study these comprehensive tests demand...
...Oilman McDuffie left Royal Dutch-Shell. He and Jacques Vinmont (onetime Jacques Weinberger) of Blair & Co. formed Pacific Western Oil. Mr. McDuffie has a new home in San Marino (Pasadena suburb), plays strenuous tennis on his own court, uses no tobacco. His office is in the new black-&-gold Richfield Building which is crowned by a mighty air beacon. This building was erected by Clarence M. Fuller, spectacular marketer and advertiser whom Mr. McDuffie succeeded as Richfield president...
...Harvard Medical School has used to advantage different criteria in sifting out its applicants. Personally, character, and financial resources have been recognized to be as fully important as marks received in examinations. Furthermore sound health is a great consideration in carrying out strenuous laboratory work. While the layman can hardly pass judgements on Medical Aptitude tests, the system as a whole does not appear to be the best means to raise the calibre of students in American Medical schools...