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...make teaching as a profession attractive to men of ability-how to put it on a plane where it can compete with other occupations-this is a problem which will demand much thought and some action by the people of this country within the next generation. The leadership in such a movement must come from those who, having enjoyed the advantages of a college education, go out into the world to play their part in the control of the nation's affairs...
...would be a bold man who would try to present a complete solution to the problem; but one fact stands out as obvious-that it is the mission of the college-trained men of the next decades, the men who are best able to appreciate the value of education, to present to the people of this country the situation which its institutions of learning are facing, and to be leaders in every effort to keep both universities and schools up to the highest level. The responsibility, in the last analysis, lies in the hands of the people...
This same problem is being met at Yale in an interesting way. During this week all Yale men are to be asked to fill out questionnaires giving information in regard to their expenses at college, it to state whether these expenses are met wholly or in part by their summer earnings, assistance from scholarships or loans or by income from work done during the college year. They will also be asked to estimate and itemize their expenses, such as tuition, rooms, board, laundry books, athletic fees, etc. Thus a complete and accurate record will be obtained of all men wholly...
...College year approaches and many Harvard men, especially Seniors, are confronted with the problem of "getting jobs", a consideration of the important work carried on by the Appointment office of the Harvard Alumni Association is of particular interest. According to a report issued recently, most men who have secured positions through the office have entered the manufacturing field, while mercantile work, public accounting, and foreign trade stand next in the list. In addition many graduates have been placed through various agencies such as the Harvard Clubs and certain departments of the University that have cooperated with the Alumni Association...
...condition that he should adopt the name "Wurzel-Flummery". To complicate matters his rival in Parliament, "Richard Meriton", played by R. T. Pell '24 is left an equal sum and under equal conditions. Miss Dorothy Somerset '21 of Radcliffe, as "Viola Crashaw", provides a happy solution to the problem...