Word: anew
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article entitled "Just What is a College Education Worth?' published in an American magazine, Percy S. Straus '97 brings up anew the question of the value of college-bred men in business. Mr. Straus, who is Chairman of the Committee on Employment of the Harvard Club of New York City, tells a significant story of a brilliant college graduate who was offered a position involving statistical work in a large plant. Once at work, "Dean, the graduate in question, showed a flash of real brilliancy in analyzing the operations of two departments. The unfortunate factor was that in getting...
Then I look at that Crimson flag anew...
Something over a year ago the people of this country were looking toward peace as to the Millenium. The end of hostilities was to be the panacea for all wrong; the nation was to settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...
...partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind. It is well that the war should direct increased attention to these questions, should provoke us to take our bearings afresh, and consider our courses anew; but the conditions brought about by our entering the conflict are not the best cause the conditions are abnormal and the results obtained by trying something new are not certainly those that would occur in time of peace...
...informal" system as originally practised by Yale, Harvard and Princeton, though well meant, has been widely censured as not furnishing the necessary incentive for athletics. For then University to "about-face" now, acknowledge that she was wrong and begin anew, will be no disgrace. It is the only logical step open...