Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...recent report on Harvard men in the business world found that approximately 2000 alumni were either unemployed or dissatisfied with their positions. Although the fault cannot be strictly applied to the present system of graduate placement, still that system is so limited that only a definite number of positions are open to each applicant and he must take what is offered regardless of his own personal fitness or the position's appeal...
...distinct from what Dean Gauss, in his telegram to the Yale News, terms as the College. Princeton must not let her excellent equipment and curriculum blind herself to her own social problems. The same evils which Harvard and Yale are taking drastic steps to eliminate exist here. We cannot adopt a similar remedy though it might be advisable to plan future dormitories with that eventuality in view--but we can at least learn valuable lessons from the experiments at Cambridge and New Haven when we come to build a University Center or give the various club regulations their annual overhauling...
Statistics are almost always reverted to in order to prove a debatable point. The number of undergraduates using the Main Reading Room, the number of books issued from the desk during the day and those taken out for overnight use cannot certainly be taken as a yard rule to measure accurately the success or failure of the Reading Period just closed. Such statistics can be interpreted in too many different ways to suit the fancy of those persons attempting to prove their particular points...
...increasing measure of widespread discontent with which the whole innovation is regarded after three years of trial is in no way proportional to the use or lack of use of the facilities in Widener. Certainly the intrinsic value of the Reading Period cannot be based on the total aggregate of pages perused by a weary student body. If the Reading Period is in general disrepute, the fault lies in its inherent qualities of usefulness to the undergraduate. Another year of trial has made no appreciable difference...
...Sweringens is that the Erie coal properties, never operating at full capacity because of lack of distribution facilities, will now have ample service. Another is that henceforth U. S. Trucking can deliver Erie shipments, for since Pittston and not the railroad controls it, the I. C. C. cannot consider itself outraged...