Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is probably no type of job that is more easy to secure, or more difficult to consider favorably than the so-called commission sales job which is offered to a college man at every turn. Every student employment office is hounded with people who would have students sell silk handkerchiefs, ladies' rain coats, shoes, "ships, sealing wax", and I doubt not, "cabbages and kings." In every case a liberal commission is offered and there is "no limit to the amount of money a man can earn...
...cast, tired by sincere and workmanlike efforts to please. But a large handful of the faithful voiced its solid appreciation for a finished performance of a really fine comedy as the curtain fell on the final miracle of a benevolent "bon Dieu." Even if "le bon Dieu" did turn out to be a "Deus ex machina," no one could deny that the task of bringing the first act situation to a happy conclusion was a miracle of omniscience...
...Miserere Allegri Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Cavalier Song Stanford Along the Garden Ways Heilman Chant de Guerre Schmitt (Soloist: Joseph Lautner '21) Chorus of Bacchantes, from Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Moonland Melartin Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Intermission Four Folk Songs: The Galway Piper Gute Nacht Reaper's Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook in Shady Spot Then Round about the Starry Throne, from "Samson...
Candidates for the Business Competition of the Red Book are still wanted. An unusually small turn-out was present at the meeting in Smith Hails yesterday evening...
...elective system had its origin in the tremendous growth of knowledge in the last century. The fund of facts in an increasing number of fields finally became so great that the educators, completely overwhelmed by it, had to turn the task of selection over to green Freshmen, who were not qualified to make wise choices. This burden of knowledge which is threatening to crush education under its weight is analogous to the structural overloading of our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure of our civilization on itself, and the overloading of education by our civilization. Perhaps this increasing pressure...