Word: banking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time goes by the facilities for obtaining a higher education are becoming less difficult. Even the prolonged preparatory training and the bank account are unnecessary, and many an ambitious man earns his way through four years by doing some of the various tasks at hand in a college town...
...While thus engaged "Trun-un-ng-tsss" --a black puff of smoke appeared behind my tail and I had the impression of having a piece of iron hiss by. "Must have got my range, first shot!" I surmised, and making a steep bank, pique'd heavily. "There, I've lost them now!" The whole art of avoiding shells is to pay no attention till they get your range, and then dodge away, change altitude and generally avoid going in a straight line. In point of fact, I could see bunches of exploding shells up over my right shoulder...
...course proves satisfactory the annual triangular race between Yale, Cornell and Princeton may be held there in May. It is absolutely straight and the presence of a railroad line along the bank provides for observation...
...make the courses in this third year not alone research courses in the more refined and difficult principles underlying business practice, but also practical courses where each student will have an opportunity of intimate personal contact with business life. Arrangements have already been made with the National City Bank whereby a certain number of students will be afforded an opportunity to prepare themselves for the service of the Bank in foreign fields. It is proposed to broaden and generalize these opportunities so that ultimately every student will be enabled and expected to do some field work in that particular department...
During the past year Harvard has been asked to contribute to more organized and unorganized charities, war relief funds and bazaars than every before, and the undergraduate has quite cheerfully overdrawn his bank account and contributed. The campaign to raise money for the New York Allied Bazaar, which began this week, comes at an unfortunate time as far as the colleges are concerned. A large part of the men are away during the examination period, and those who remain find nearly all their available funds swallowed up by June bills, but the number of votes cast in the contest...