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...securing and holding a job. Strange to say, many men, some of them ready to graduate have only the haziest notion of the position for which they are supposed to have been fitting. They drift along fatuously believing that sooner or later they will discover hidden talents and astonish the world...
...learn of the amount of aid brought to needy students who are struggling to put themselves through the different departments of the University would astonish outsiders and would, for that matter, surprise most Harvard men. We do not refer to the scholarships, the loan fund, and the like, the benefit of which is well-known; but to the quiet work done by individuals for those who are seen to be in need of help. Wealthy men here, not generally given the reputation of having concern for their fellow-students, have been known time and again to give large sums...
...become thoroughly accustomed to it. They will not pull over the four-mile course in it at full speed, however, until two days before the race. Then they will be sent for all they are worth, and if nothing happens they are going to make time that will astonish some of the chronic grumblers who are always and forever finding fault with the crew, the coach, the management and everything connected with the navy...
...died before it had completed its first year. The ball, however, had now been set a rolling, and from this time on, college journalism grew with amazing rapidity. If today every paper, which has ever been published by students in our American colleges, were in existence, the number would astonish the most credulous. But the law of Malthus operates just as effectively in the domain of literary effort, as it does in the material world about us; there has always been a tendency for college papers to increase faster than the means of subsistence-financial difficulties have brought their careers...
...wants of the students for many years to come. At that time the supposition was certainly warranted, for the athletic spirit among the students was a matter of much less concern than at present. Since that day the attention paid to general athletics has grown to proportions which would astonish a student of that time. The provisions made for furnishing lockers to the students were found to be inadequate to the demand as early as last year, and now the increased supply is not only entirely taken up, but applications are constantly being received which the management of the gymnasium...