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City College of New York has entered the ranks of brain team competition and is prepared to receive challenges from any college, according to information received here today. At the last meeting of their student council, a decision was reached to promote a brain team which should be composed of the most brilliant students in the college, to be chosen by the process of elimination...
...executive board of the Brooks House, will be announced shortly after the election of officers. These men include the heads of the Law, Dental, Medical, and Graduate Societies and the various undergraduate committees that carry on the work of the organization, the Social Service Committee, the Foreign Student Committee, the Chapel Committee, the University Committee, and the Speakers Bureau...
...report of the Student Council Committee on Vocational Guidance touches a problem which colleges have begun to appreciate and to solve only recently. The difficulties of the transition period that faces the great majority of students after graduation have long been realized but definite assumption on the part of the colleges of the responsibility for helping to reduce them has been tardy in appearing. At Harvard the situation has been met in the past rather haphazardly, and the report of the Student Council can be taken as evidence of a gratifying movement towards systematization...
...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 in the case of men whose abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference...
...Student Council meeting last night, William Wallace Ryan '30, of New York City, was appointed chairman of the Student Advisory Committee, to succeed A. R. Sweezy...