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...college works. He makes contacts with officials of the University and obtains at first hand details of new projects which the College is inaugurating. He is taught how to cover news thoroughly, accurately, and interestingly. While during the early weeks of the competition he is gaining a groundwork in the routine side of the newspaper game, later on he is allowed ample score for his own news- getting proclivities...
...Business School by taking certain courses in Harvard is one often asked. According to the Dean, there is no need for this unless the individual is really interested in such a field as Economics. The Business School naturally teaches the practical application of economic principles but a though groundwork in this line is not necessary He advises future business candidates to major in the field which interests them most, adding that one or two Economics courses plus a half-year of accounting might stand them in good stead...
...backs, Lane, Locke, Adzigian, and Pescosolido ran wild through the visitors' defense and restored cheer to the coach's heart by chalking up a total of 470 yards gained from the scrimmage. Passes figured only slightly in the game for Coach Casey was determined to check up on his groundwork. Five aerials were attempted and none completed. A spectacular spinner play put in its appearance, or rather, attracted unusual attention by reason of its effectiveness, and Harvard managed to rip open the Wildcats' line for long gains on this bit of deception...
...commences with a salve in the good old Mencken style, written by H. E. Buchholz, and entitled "The Pedagogues at Armageddon," Like most of the Mercury's outbursts on the subject of the American educator, the article in question consists largely of well-calculated contumely and vicious satire; its groundwork of fact, however, is sufficient; those who have followed the inane peregrinations of the National Education Association during the last few years will be only too delighted to read a whole-hearted and frankly prejudiced account of its proceedings. As a point of departure, Mr. Buchholz analyzes the composition...
...trying to keep drunk; he ends up in the room of a friend who is an amateur psychoanalyst, keeps him up all night by his brilliantly unhappy monolog. When he comes to, next evening, Gather feels better about things: he meets his wife at a concert, lays the groundwork of a reconciliation, and goes off to Duxbury by himself to think everything over. The Author, like his hero and unlike many of his death-possessed colleagues, has a personal reason for his bias towards grave thoughts. When he was n he saw his father kill his mother and then commit...