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...degree to which convention is outraged is up to the hostess,' declares the little pamphlet issued by the employment office. 'I am an opportunist,' says Jeeves, who happens to live in Lowell House, 'and I grab my chances where I see them...
...ambulance drivers willing to seek adventure in the Near East, the merchant marine, and countless other fields. Professor Casner keeps a finger on developments in defense industries, so that whenever a sudden demand for men arises, he can transfer the information at once to Seniors who might wish to grab at the opportunity...
...church must stop being "woolly and wordy," grab "the last chance that it can have for generations to affect the course of history. . . . Christianity is a revolutionary religion or it is nothing. . . . The Church [must] enthuse the young as Bolshevism has enthused them in Russia and Naziism ... in Germany." One reason he considers Christian leadership particularly necessary in Britain: political power has passed largely into the hands of "unimaginative" trade-union heads who "have little interest in anything but hours and wages...
Last night the scoreless Freshmen gridsters reached into their grab-bag of popularity and came up with a captain, John W. Fisher. The six foot three Weston center captained the Andover Academy eleven in 1940 and has started both Harvard games this campaign...
...with practice. The most important function of any Harvard graduates's life is his work, and no expense should be spared-much less $18,000 in rendering all possible aid in securing him not only a job, but a job suited to his capabilities and not one he will grab out of pure desperation after months of aimless searching. The Placement Bureau must be restored at once before the contacts grow cold and before '42 and future classes begin to regret not spending their last year at Katy Gibbs...