Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...masters and ten students of the Radley School of England are guests of Harvard today. The group is making a month's tour of the preparatory schools and colleges of the United States as a return visit to that of the Kent School crew, which visited England last summer to row in the Henley Regatta and in a special race with the Radley School. The trip through the various educational institutions of this country has been arranged by the Reverend F. H. Sill, Headmaster of the Kent School...
...accordance with his policy of providing employment for students in the University the whole year through, W. W. Daly '14, Secretary for Student Employment, has announced his plans for securing lucrative positions for men wishing them for the coming summer. The list of opportunities embraces many fields, including such positions as life guards, companions, and tutors...
...swallow does not make a summer. One plane does not make an airforce. Nevertheless, the approval of the U. S. State Department, given last week, to the purchase by Mexico of a Ford-Stout all-metal monoplane like the one in which Mrs. Lindbergh, Engineer William B. Stout & Mrs. Stout & friends flew from Detroit to Mexico City, was welcomed in Mexico and discussed in Washington as the harbinger of a general lifting by the State Department of the embargo on U. S. planes sold to Mexico. In approving purchase of the single plane, which the Mexican government said it wanted...
Horrid to many a small boy was a proposal made last week by Director Edward P. Smith, of New York State's summer high schools. Let public schools be open the year round, said he, instead of on the present schedule of forty weeks or less. "Our forty-week year dates from the time when we were an agricultural people, when pupils were needed for harvesting crops. We have exactly the reverse of that condition...
...find a man a position and bid him farewell. An unwise choice at that time would mean an uncomplimentary record, damning evidence in the eyes of future employers. When the University Employment Office arranged for the students to do acclimatizing work in the selected field during the summer of their Junior year, or to make arrangements with prospective employers some months before graduation, significant advances were made. The Engineering School has gone farther. The man who takes a position now with an employer who, of course, is working for has own interests, has not burned his bridges behind...