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...inclined to agree with the writer that "an airshaft is a vital necessity", where direct ventilation cannot be obtained, but I should like to call his attention to the fact that a tightly-covered airshaft ceases to function as such. It is highly probable that an ingenius architect might devise some simple expedient whereby a current of air might be induced to enter at the base of the shait and escape through a suitable vent at the top, thus securing an adequate circulation of fresh air without admitting rain and snow. Such feats of engineering nave been accomplished...
...meeting will be the first public function held in the new club house...
General activities of the Association commenced on September 12 when the Information Bureau was opened. This organization, in charge of a committee of undergraduates, will continue to function until September 27, aiding new students in any way possible, and particularly in the matter of obtaining rooms for those who are without quarters in Cambridge...
...government in the factory, mine or mill. It is a structure of conference committees which, in the best prevailing practice, are composed in equal numbers of elected representatives of the management. It is an organization, local to the particular concern in which it is set up, whose function and purpose is to so correlate the mutual interests of employee and manager as to produce the most harmonious working relationships, the most effective production methods, and the best teamwork between the two often hostile factors in industry, labor and capital...
...graduates recently turned out or it may be the result of a feeling that it is good for the young man to be constantly reminded of his own worthlessness. But most of it is misdirected; such advice is undoubtedly needed in the case of the man whose sole function in college is to be what the world expects him to be -- a "typical college boy". But this type is becoming a negligible factor in the college of today...