Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William James upon an occasion observed that the greatness of Harvard was secure in the "persistent atomic tendency" of her student body in her fostering of lonely self contained creatures who were not invaded by typical interests of the group.
English, which usually has led the list last year was superseded by the field of Economics and this year Economics gained an overwhelming majority of 106 men. The two leading fields have 18.7 and 14.2 percent respectively of all the men in the three upper classes in the University.
Now most men leave their alma mater bent upon a hundred careers; they are trained business executives, landscape architects, and spectroscopists as often as teachers and more often than they are preachers. Once they walked for exercise and milked the college cow; now they are highly specialized athletes or men...
Before all however to the freshman coming to college to the graduates of other years returning to the outsider visiting the impression of the University comes in the form of a campus. At Harvard it is called The Yard. The original Yard has expanded its glorious elms dying of the...
History has shown a steady increase in popularity during the last three years coming up from 9.4 to 10.7 percent of the whole number. A significant development is shown by the figures of the fields of Bio-Chemical Sciences, Biology and Chemistry all three closely related. In 1927 in the...