Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City. There has been for a long time an active and numerous body of Graduates here in Boston, who form the Business School Alumni Association, but recently the number of alumni in New York has become so large that a charter has been granted for the formation of a branch club there. Cleveland and Chicago are in the process of organizing their alumni with a view to forming clubs...
...called modern fiction is apparently under the ban at Widener. "Alice Adams", "Main Street" and "The Age of Innocence" have slipped in, but "Moon Calf", "Zell" and "Miss Lulu Bett" are not on the shelves. Joseph Hergesheimer's books have a place, but only since last year; while James Branch Cabell has but a single volume listed under his name in the catalogue. And there is hope, we are told, for "Erik Dorn" and "If Winter Comes...
...Freshman must take part in some branch of athletics, and if he has not played on any preparatory school teams, he is often at a loss to know what benefit, and also what pleasure, he will derive from the many sports he has to choose from upon entering Harvard. The field of college athletics is on a far broader scale than anything he has seen before, and there are so many new things he must accustom himself to in his new surroundings, that he often makes the serious mistake of "dabbling" first in one sport, then in another, until...
That every branch of human endeavor is in some way competitive, seems at first to be a most evident truth to the college student, who is always "going out" for something--for distinction, or a team, or a paper. But there is one branch of college life which is not in any way competitive for the reason that the demand far exceeds the supply. This is social service...
...preceding year show a substantial increase, due in part to the higher wages paid to employees during the latter part of 1920 and in part to expenditures on the Society's property. Harvard Store 1920 1921 General Expenses, $86,658 $94,556 Special Expenses, 2,786 2,931 Technology Branch General Expenses, 20,538 26,688 Special Expenses, 2,131 1,853 Barber Shop, 7,820 9,909 Totals...