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...like English business men, are aware of the advantages of education, and recognize more and more the value of intellectual training, whatever the particular study may be. But no business man will give a second thought to a prospective employee who imagines that a good college record is proof of that employee's willingness to cooperate. The standard cartoon of the college graduate who expects to succeed the president at the end of six months, if not sooner, is somewhat outworn. For college graduates are learning, often bitterly, that they must prove themselves through character, aggressiveness, and willingness to serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER GRADUATION | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...entombment or of the life of the man are available. . . . The historicity of the New Testament is reinforced in that we have found on this and hundreds of similar ossuaries many names that occur for the first time in the New Testament but of which we hitherto had no proof that they were current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ossuary | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...plans for the new building also include a third floor entirely given over to offices, a lecture hall, several meeting rooms, and a library, also fire-proof, to house the valuable collection of 65,000 volumes and pamphlets, which ranks second only to that of the United States Naval Observatories at Washington. It is expected that the new building will take care of additions to the books and plates collections for the next 40 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO ADD A NEW BUILDING TO PRESENT NUMBER | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...field of statesmanship Washington, Franklin and more lately Roosevelt are names which arouse our admiration." Bolshevism: "Our trade relations with Russia are of economic value to us, but they do not affect our internal policies. Fascism and Bolshevism are still at the antipodes, both in theory and practice. Proof of this is afforded by appeals, constantly sent out to the proletariat of the world by the Third International at Mos cow to fight Fascism to death." Idleness. "Unemployment is causing anxiety in Italy as in all other countries. We have a half-million unemployed at the present time, of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito In English | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...life on Mars through the new 200-in. telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory. Kansas City Star's Editor H. J. Haskell 1) Discovery of a new source of power through the release of atomic energy; 2) Announcement from a responsible source of a cure for cancer; 3) Incontrovertible proof of a spirit message from Conan Doyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Biggest News | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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