Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Mrs. August Belmont (Eleanor Robson), famed philanthropist, onetime actress (1897-1910), called a conference to discuss nurses and nursing. Dr. May Ayres Burgess, Director of the Grading Committee of Nursing Schools, flayed the type of girl now entering the profession. "The minimum educational standards are low," she stated. "New York State is a serious offender. The legal requirement is one year of high school, which is lower than the requirement placed by most department stores or business houses for the education of their clerks, typists and saleswomen. . . . The time has come for raising the quality of women admitted into...
...nature of things, only students with an unusual amount of initiative and intellectual curiosity ever break the chain that leads them either directly into a job or to the ministrations of a local academy of higher learning. Any measures towards removing the handicaps in the path of this type of candidate will both help to remove an unfair disadvantage and secure for the college desirable members...
...days ago the Harvard CRIMSON announced in bold type the fact that a gift of $3,000,000 by an anonymous donor was about to make possible "a radical experiment in undergraduate life" by the establishment of an inner college. The purpose of this innovation, as a residential unit, is to foster "within its walls those features of social and academic life which are left largely to chance in the present existence of upperclassmen at Harvard...
...Hoover man is not a single type. What makes him a Hoover man is that so many of him have been chosen with such uniform success, that so many of him have credited their success to the confidence and co-operation of "the Chief." A Hoover man is usually a recognized expert in his line before he qualifies for work in that line under Hoover. He is usually an expert with creative theories of his own, or enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner...
...frank admission that after having been afforded two years' opportunity to judge of a result which had involved the employment of much ingenuity and the expenditure of several million dollars, an overwhelming majority of the people of Denver and the adjacent newspaper field continued their preference for the type of evening paper produced by F. G. Bonfils in the Evening Post, rather than for the type offered by Scripps-Howard in the Evening News. ... On the other hand, the Rocky Mountain News under Scripps-Howard management has enjoyed a rebirth...