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...considerable importance to the collegiate world. It indicates that large business houses are finding it both practicable and profitable to co-operate with the colleges in order to obtain the best men available for their positions, and for the undergraduate it is another step toward simplifying the "after graduation" problem. It also will enable a man to discover his aptitude or inaptitude for this or that position by giving him practical experience before he actually makes his decision...
...have been sometimes a misunderstanding of the committee's attitude and of the effect of reporting students. Nevertheless, efforts to secure co-operation have produced increasingly good results. By meeting the professors, together with their assistants, in several of the larger courses, and by discussing with them the general problem, the secretary has made reasonably sure that few undergraduates will in the long run escape finding themselves in at least one course in which the use of bad English is likely to be reported. Many instructors, moreover, pay attention to the English of their students without sending them...
...Physical Colloquium. "The Dynamical Theory of Crystal Gratings and its Application to the Problem of Specific Heats," by Mr. E. C. Kemble in Room 3, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Approach to Business Problems," by Arch Wilkinson Shaw, discusses the most effective method of attacking a business problem and ranges over the three great fields of production,--distribution, and administration. In view of the fact that the activities of production have been reduced to fairly generally accepted standards, the author begins with this phase of business and after demonstrating in this known and charted field a method of analysis and systematic approach, he shows how the same method could be applied to the problems of distribution and administration...
...condition of the Harvard Union has been discussed publicly and privately at regular intervals. Finally, a special committee appointed by the Student Council has made a careful report on the practical utility and financial status of the Union, with the idea of arriving at a conclusive settlement of the problem...