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...week to "snubs" of General Wood by President Wilson with bias? Wilson had pretty good reasons for most of his appointments, and generally speaking he was intent on doing good. His prosecution of the War was hampered, as was Lincoln's, by smaller persons who wished to get the job under the control of the right political party. Although many Republicans worked hard and earnestly for victory under Wilson's leadership, some proposed a War Board, made up of Republicans, to take over the duties of the President and thus get the job done right, and chief among these...
...Harvard. Take the really good boy who simply does not know what a day's work consists of. After keeping him on for half-year with an unsatisfactory record, we often say to him and his family that he ought to be taken out and given a good, stiff job. That happens generally at midyears. Sometimes it does not happen until the end of the freshman year. If it happens at midyears, the man can start in again in the autumn if he has made a good record for himself outside...
That some such effort is being formulated here is now apparent. By directing combined efforts during these spring months the college employment offices can save many a graduate from the limitless red tape attached to job hunting through cosmopolitan agencies. Those who have sponsored this cooperative endeavor, therefore, must receive the commendation of all those who have ever undertaken that most fatiguing of activities--job hunting...
...result of the agitation leaves Yale alone to face the music. If the hand of the News has been responsible for the unveiling of sordid truths, it must shoulder the job of swinging the pendulum back to grace. What then is the result which we fear? It is that Yale must pay the bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper...
There in the flesh were men whose names stand for houses: Lippincott, McBride, Dorrance, Burt, Brace (but not Harcourt), job-riding merrily together to Grosset (without Dunlap). There was many another publisher or his trusted lieutenant, like shrewd young George Brett Jr., representing the comparatively vast Macmillan interests. One and all were making a junket out of a serious Washington to appear en masse at public hearings of the Patents Committee of the House of Representatives on a subject close to the hearts of all U.S. authors, song writers, scenarists, printers, librarians, dramatists, actors, librettists and bookbinders whatever, but most...