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What Lawrence Perry reports as the attitude west of the Alleghenies is likewise the attitude of practically every Harvard man with whom I came in contact in New York. Here, perhaps more than in Boston, we meet graduates of other colleges, and find our friends from Princeton particularly congenial to our tastes and views...
...they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...
From this house will each day issue the myriad copies of Hearst's New York Journal (evening) and American (morning). It is alive with rollers, chutes, conveyors to carry copy, proof, type to contact points in the process of rushing news to newsboy. In the "fudge" room stand three linotype machines next to telegraph instruments where telegraphic flashes tell sudden death, discovery, disaster. From the machines, conveyors carry the type galley directly to the presses. News, newspapers think, should be gobbled hot. The American and Journal have every known device to sell it smoking...
...make arrangements with prospective employers some months before graduation, significant advances were made. The Engineering School has gone farther. The man who takes a position now with an employer who, of course, is working for has own interests, has not burned his bridges behind him. He has a definite contact, a circumstance so rare before, with a responsible, disinterested guide who is well oriented by the requisite ten years, of experience in the same field. This friend can save him from an unwise choice even after it has been made. The new graduate is not abandoned if the square...
...praise was more than justified by the success that was attended the trip of the past two weeks. Considering the chimaera that have been connected with the name of Harvard by certain popular fancies, the University is extremely fortunate in possessing a group that can, by performance and contact, Lindbergh-like, accomplish so much as delegates of good will...