Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate work and who are definitely settled upon some science or profession, only the vaguest sort of intentions are revealed. It is on this ground that the report urges the creation of the new office of Vocational Guidance to be distinct from both the Student Employment Bureau and the Alumni Appointments Office. But there is another possible interpretation of the vagueness shown by the Seniors in their replies. Rather than a need for advice, the figures more probably indicate that in the case of men whose abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference in the long...
...following extracts, dealing with "George Schwab and the Peabody Museum Expedition to Liberia" are reprinted from an article in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin by E. A. Hooton, associate professor of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum...
Herbert Hoover has a rare gift for kindling new fires of moral endeavor within young men, for sending them forth on missions of nobility. An influence at New Haven where he is in close contact not only with the student body but also with returning-and "reuning"-alumni, Dean Hutchins may find himself a Hoover missionary spreading the gospel of abstinence among college men. The Yale Law School has been conducting a survey of court administration. Dean Hutchins, with Prof. Charles E. Clark, told the President of this work. If asked, he could have given President Hoover an illuminating account...
...seemed last week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...
...families, birth control, proper age for marriage? The investigators explained that "during the last several decades it has become unceasingly apparent that there is something seriously wrong with the traditional system of marriage in this country." Two hundred students had written out their answers before President Brooks and the alumni objected. The answers were grimly guarded from curious eyes. Expulsions impended...