Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This need for leisured intimacy has some bearing. I believe, on the question of the status of the director of vocational guidance. There is much discussion of the official standing of such a man and questions concerning his alliance with the faculty or with the Alumni Association are paramount. I believe that, whatever his standing, whether or not he be a member of the Faculty, he should not be surrounded by such a blaze of glory or honor that the humble fear to approach his throne or open their hearts to him. They must not be frightened by his title...
President Lowell completed twenty years last week as President of Harvard and we find in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin an appreciative summing-up of his accomplishments during the period. President Lowell's leading interest when he assumed command in 1909 was in quality of performance. With this key to his administration one can follow Harvard's progress since then to the institution that it is today. Socially he has worked during these ten years towards an all-around undergraduate life which began with good conditions for the Freshmen, carried through the athletic and other student interests, and came...
...office in University Hall under Mr. Walker W. Daly. Statistics already quoted indicate the vagueness of the great majority of Seniors in touch with that office as to what they can do and want to do after college. Guidance will be further necessitated by the forthcoming enlargement of the alumni appointment office, now under Miss Ruth B. Monk, which has offered to handle the placing of Seniors as well as alumni. Since the alumni have offered this placement service, it is felt that the college should help Seniors to choose a vocation, in order to facilitate their placement...
...next question is how should this guidance be given? The committee feels that informal talks to groups of students by eminent professional men; personal interviews with company representatives or alumni or business men; and books and pamphlets are all valuable sources of information. But they should all be directed and coordinated by one man, perhaps with assistants, whose office should be a clearing-house and permanent center. It seems essential that this man be impartial, with no axe to grind as in the case of a company representative. He should be well informed, at least having access through other persons...
...chief speakers for the occasion will be President M. E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, Professor A. N. Whitehead of the Department of Philosophy, and President Lowell. Bishop W. J. Lawrence will give the introduction and the benediction at the close of the ceremony. The Alumni dinner June 1 will bring the semi-centennial celebration to a close, upon which occasion speeches will be given by members of Radcliffe's first graduating class, that...