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...general function of Alumni Placement was described by Dean Plimpton in Monday's CRIMSON, Summarized briefly, its purpose is that of a clearing house for information on business occupations and specific job opportunities. The Alumni Placement Office considers the individual student responsible for choosing his own career and securing his own job; there is no wish to influence a Senior in the choice of his life work, nor obviously can the office literally get him a job. Each registrant will, however, be assisted to make his choice of work a rational one, and the Office will use its full resources...
Governor Landon, I believe, is an able administrator. He ha manifested courage and sincerity, especially in his message to the Cloveland Convention. He can be relied upon to put our financial house in order, to permit Congress to function without subservience, to respect the position and opinions of the Supreme Court, to protect the Civil Service, and to promote social legislation as rapidly as the government is prepared to administer...
...Archbishops however did not cut themselves off last week from ever attending a function at which the King may ask them to meet Mrs. Simpson. The Chaplain of the Archbishop of Canterbury made this clear when he denied a story that the Archbishops had told the King they would not attend "any function" at which Mrs. Simpson is present. Thus her presence in Westminster Abbey would not be taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury as precluding his officiating to crown King Edward...
...where venereals may receive free or cheap treatment, get only a fraction of the victims. Of the rest, some do not know that they are infected, while the rest shamefacedly sneak to quacks, urologists, and skin specialists. Henceforth the 14,000 doctors of New York City are to function as "shock troops" in the war against syphilis. They may send patients to any one of the Health Department's 14 diagnostic centres, get back without charge confidential Wassermann reports. Such patients will get free antisyphilitic drugs and nursing service from the city, where needed. Special medical investigators will track...
Incorporation of the School of Regional Planning in the thoroughly alive School of Design offered the only real solution. Not only are costs cut, but greater integration of related subjects results. With its great budgetary loss, the Department of Regional Planning cannot, of course, function as well as it did in the past, but with its decks cleared for action, it stands ready to use every future contribution in the most effective manner...