Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will be a meeting of the Alumni Association of the Medical School at luncheon in Vanderbilt Hall next Wednesday at 12 o'clock. The list of speakers for the occasion, formed of members of the Faculty and prominent graduates, will be announced later...
...building new club houses to keep up with the competition. Some are not too comfortable financially. Would it not be possible to effect the consolidation of two clubs into one with larger membership? Might not conditions later make further consolidations feasible." At first thought this may seem preposterous to alumni who have sentimental attachment to their own particular club. But these alumni try to kept sentiment out of business. Might it not be worthwhile to look reasonably at such a possibility." Although enrollment is restricted, the clubs cannot stand still. The competition is there and the pace is stiff...
...report of the writer for the Princeton Alumni magazine, who unencouraged by the argument surfeited Princeton undergraduate, prepared a lengthy, careful, statistical survey of the Princeton club is interesting in its tentative recommendations, which are elsewhere printed on this page. The assisement which has preceded them is notable for its more than superficial resemblance to the similar evaluations made by the Harvard Student Council. The assets are: (1) The clubs at present afford the only solution for feeding the upperclassmen. (2) Social advantages (3) Their innocuous position in student politics and activities; the liabilities are: (1) Failure to feed...
Lundin made a careful survey of the military and naval war service records of Harvard graduates from 1775 to 1783 and found that eight of the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence were alumni of the College, that General Artemas Ward, class of 1748, was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army, and that 245 of 1361 living graduates saw active war service. Fifteen percent of the graduate body at this time were known as loyalists or "Tories" with another group of 250 recognized as of patriot sympathies although unqualified for military duty...
...Senior Album, large, well edited, informative, has appeared with its interesting records and its invaluable picture gallery. With it come statistics, none of prime importance, all offering more or less of an insight into the minds of incipient alumni. That inclusive giant "Business" is hailed as the favored occupation, while the professions follow below in varying degrees of popularity. Sports, such as Painting, Radio Engineering, and Oil Refining occur and there is, of course, a large number of men who did not signify their future work...