Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presbyterian church. The women kept their silence. Nearly 100 years later the first woman's executive committee of Home Missions was appointed. Since then women have become increasingly vocal in the church, but in the direction of the church they have had no voice. When the various boards of the church were reorganized in 1922 several women were given important positions but outside of their own individual organizations their advice and votes were not requested. So great was feminine indignation that three years later the General Assembly took notice of "general unrest" among women, appointed a committee...
...following article is the sixth of a series written for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '14, University Secretary for Student Employment, on the various fields of endeavor in business open to college graduates...
...college man who is interested in mathematics, accounting or work of a semi-legal nature, or, in fact, any of the general office fields, the Insurance Companies today probably offer as wide a range for his activities as any other line of business. Various departments might be mentioned--Actuarial, where the figures are made up on which rates are based; the Underwriting where clauses and contracts for the policies are made up; the General Accounting, where records are kept, as in any large organization--these, and others, divided into the different fields in which the Company may be engaged, which...
...tabloid, frequently illustrated with actual newspaper stories of the most Moronic cast. Attempting, evidently, to give an impressionistic picture of the emotions of a rather sensitive reporter in the pay of a sensation-trusting city staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads at the top of each page, the running together of several words in the foreign manner, and the common use of such perfectly good nouns as "ire" and "war" as verbs...
...little time in place of the various intellectual stimuli offered in and around the Yard he must substitute references to the lily fields of Bermuda and the warmth of the surf at Waikiki, to the blooming of the tulips in the Bois de Boulogne and the peach trees in Georgia, to the sunrises on Mt. Washington and the sunsets in the Golden Gate, and perhaps as well for if space can be conquered, why should time be a barrier? to the midnight sun at the North Cape. These by no means exhaust his opportunities; he has a quantity of other...