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...first play, Sherry carried the ball out of bounds. On the third down the same quick kick from placement was tried with Wood kicking and Crickard holding. Hageman tackled Parker on Yale's 34-yard line. Following this the Harvard forward wall stiffened considerably and two Yale plays failed to advance the ball...
...More placements were made in the past summer by the Harvard Alumni Placement Bureau, it was stated recently by Director J. F. Dwinell '02, than in either of the preceding summers. This increase is placed at about fifteen per cent...
While jobs are fewer, graduates need jobs more. College placement bureaus show a large increase of applications over last June. Applicants are less particular than heretofore. Formerly, especially at the New England schools, the graduate expected to spring from the commencement platform to an executive desk. Now he is eager to be even an errand...
...sharp footlight on the whole situation glares at Smith College. Every girl in the June graduating class asked placement bureau help in getting work. Three out of four of the graduates expected to make work their profession for at least the immediate future. Only one out of 20 expected to marry, travel or remain at home the next year or so. Last June the expectant brides, travelers and homebodies averaged...
...whittled away wherever safety permits. The decks, made of expensive teakwood, are only 2 in. thick (compared to the 4-2-in. pine decks of U. S. Liners). Announced Secretary of the Navy Adams: "The use of holystones wears down the decks so rapidly that their repair or re-placement has become an item of expense [cost of replacing a cruiser deck: $50,000] which cannot be met under limited appropriations. The wooden decks of the new 10,000-ton cruisers . . . may be made unserviceable very rapidly by the use of holystones...