Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking the task of providing employment aid and advice to graduating seniors out of the hands of the Student Employment Office, the service has taken a forward step. In an organization already occupied to its fullest capacity with the problem of supplying part-time and summer employment to the self-supporting undergraduate there is little time and energy left to devote to seniors. The new service leaves the advisers with free hands...
...December Hour examinations in elementary courses has always been reminiscent of compulsory chapel attendance or some other relic of a bygone era. As such they are probably beneficial to the freshly matriculated student, acting as a check on his proclivities to let the daily assignments slide before the Midyears. Their presence in advanced courses, besides being unnecessary, places an undesirable strain on his preparation for course theses...
...those interested members of a class to vote. It was suggested that Widener and Mallinckrodt be opened up for a similar period and even in the afternoon. The question is would this be worthwhile in order to secure perhaps twenty-five or thirty votes more? Would you have the Student Council undergo the expense of additional pictures, and would you have the obviously bored Juniors on this Committee be increased in order to have them sit for ten to fourteen more hours...
These elections are purely a student affair. It is up to the students themselves to show interest. One cannot expect a committee to sacrifice the time and expense to arouse enthusiasm and to solicit the attention of members of another class to vote for officers of this other class. If a man has enough interest to vote surely he can find it convenient to go to one of three places sometime during an entire morning. Those who have not sufficient interest need not be surprised at the outcome nor take it upon themselves to criticize a result which indeed they...
...class deems these elections so important that they warrant the personal attention of every member even though certainly a quarter of these members have no concern in them, and do not know the candidates. I repeat, if this is true, then the elections should be taken out of student hands. It might even be worthwhile to bring in mercenaries...