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...first half on the College year, Seniors in particular and other undergraduates to a less degree are reminded that the time is soon at hand when they must put the results of their training to a practical test and prove their "raison d'etre" by securing and holding a job. Strange to say, many men, some of them ready to graduate have only the haziest notion of the position for which they are supposed to have been fitting. They drift along fatuously believing that sooner or later they will discover hidden talents and astonish the world...
...Sargent has succeeded in doing a hard job well. He has so interwoven and proportioned facts of antiquity, descriptions of old houses, historical data, present-day industrial notations, descriptions of natural features and directions to motorists, that what might well have been a dry-as-dust compendium is filled with lively interest. And to this is added an arrangement so carefully worked out, an index so complete and cross-references so accurate that the Handbook makes an unusually convenient reference-book...
Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning...
...under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing cannot fail to make a favorable impression--with a consequent and deserved increment in grade...
...mistake Harvard University made is offering a prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing was in making the amount too small. Any young man who knew enough about plumbing to write a paper on the subject could go out on a repair job and make more than that in half an hour.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. --Boston Globe...