Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this season the officers, Mr. Dwinnell and D. H. Myer '27, assistant director, have been engaged in making, contacts with certain companies in Boston, finding out about possible jobs, what provision is made to take care of college graduates, and the attitude of employers in general to new men. The director is planning to make a trip later in the year through the Middle Atlantic States and the Middle West to do the same type of work. Here he will cooperate with the committees which have already been established in many of the local Harvard Clubs, and expects to establish...
...summer schools of this country are many in number and very diversified in character, and contrary to the opinion of many people are primarily for those who are seeking additional opportunity to take courses, not for scholastic lame ducks who have had difficulty in regular term time and are atoning for their negligence. They range from the mammoth organizations which have 13,000 students on their rolls, to small schools specializing in some particular field of research. This organization as to terms is widely varied, and their general administration bears more of the close similarity which is characteristic...
...Freshmen admitted to Harvard College this fall, 170 are exempt from the requirements of English A-1 by virtue of having received a grade of 75 per cent or better in the English College Board entrance examination, or by gaining special permission from the department to take a more advanced course of instruction...
...loved for himself alone. Other playwrights have employed dramatic or humorous incidents from nuclei as unpromising as this. But the lines of the present attraction at the Apollo are so amateurish and crudely done that there is no such happy issue. When comedy is the object, the authors take such labored pains to make their point obvious that any possible effect is lost, and in one appalling case actually repeated the same gag twice within five minutes. Similarly many dramatic possibilities are spoiled by the inadequacy of the lines allotted to the speakers on such occasions...
...will not be necessary to spend half of the reading period preparing a written report to assure the instructor that the work has been done. If this plan is carried out as it has been set forth, a few more of the bonds of preparatory school methods will take another step towards a well deserved past...