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College Board Examinations give only a restricted basis for judging a man's capabilities and should be discarded as far as possible in favor of regular Harvard entrance examinations. These could be used to determine whether a student could do justice to the three-year program. Twenty-six schools already cooperate with the college in eliminating College Boards, and the extension of the idea is the next logical step toward that smoothing of the transition from school to college which President Conant's January Report called for. This would encourage good secondary school training, as would permission for Freshmen...
...Schmidt are first-classmen, or seniors; Hysong, a youngster, or sophomore; and the rest second-classmen (juniors). Ingram needs no introduction to anyone who has followed Navy fortunes this year: the Tars' attack has in large part been built around his running and passing, and it was his drop kick which beat Notre Dame last Saturday. Schmidt, who last year gained alleastern honors, has been shifted this year to number three position in the backfield, where his blocking ability is available to cloar the way for Ingram. Schmidt is also the squad's best punter...
Checks were small at first, soon increased to $100 per article. Publisher Wallace also habitually pays the authors of the material used in Reader's Digest. Royal ties to individual magazines for exclusive three-year reprint contracts have risen to an estimated 1936 top of $30,000. For years the Saturday Evening Post and the American Magazine refused their reprint rights before coming into the Digest camp. Last month the Hearst magazines-also finally fell into line after a deal of higgling & haggling...
...explain all these circumstances, as usual, baffled everyone. After a week of investigation by Air Commerce Director Eugene L. Vidal himself, no one had produced a better explanation than Chicago & Southern's President Carleton Putnam. Numbed by the first fatal accident in his company's three-year history, he groaned: "It was one of those things that can't happen but still...
...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...