Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convert. In Huntingdon, Pa., Theological Student Joseph H. Brady Jr. of Juniata College reported the theft of 120 sermons he had written...
...torchlight parade through the streets of Rutland, called on citizens to pitch in. Rutlanders caught the spirit. An automobile dealer, who had agreed to match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...
Meanwhile, President Warfield had stepped aside as a fundraiser. Said he: "This is a student affair, not a dodge by a bankrupt college trying to bail out the group that put money into...
...Brag, No Bluff. The unhappy fact, reported Professor Ernest D. Engel, a university student-placement adviser, is that "companies are not competing for the graduates." Guest Speaker George Corn-stock, Seattle neon-sign manufacturer, agreed. "Business conditions," said he, "are still at a high level." But industries "are tightening up . . . weeding out the misfits and incompetents . . . Job opportunities are still here, but you'll have to beat the bushes more efficiently and thoroughly than last year's graduates." Thereupon, he took up the problem of just what the efficient bushbeater should...
They are doing a fine job. "Fender Alley," Mill Street between Winthrop and Lowell Houses, is being thoroughly worked over nightly by efficient tow-trucks and earnest tag-bearing policemen. The Elbery Garage is full of student cars waiting for their owners t reclaim them--and pay fat discouraging fees. The no parking ordinance makes fine sense for the men who own garages; the people who own cars find it tougher to understand...