Word: career
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard's Duty" seems to the essayist to be the development of gentlemen politicians"; but from rather an illogical premise that "politics should be a career and not a business", the writer quickly comes to earth and emphasizes the paucity of political discussion in the University. We have, as he says, the Taft Club and the La Follette Club, but neither organization takes the trouble to discuss in open debate with the other the merits of its particular candidate; much less to meet the members of the Democratic Clubs or the Socialist Club. In the light of such conditions...
...articles on "The Yard and Its Elms" and "Squirrels in Cambridge", belong in the archives of the Memorial Society. William Brewster, h.'99, on a subject tabooed in English A themes has made the career of the squirrels so entertaining that the reviewer hopes the closed season in Freshman composition can occasionally be violated hereafter...
Mariett entered College from Phillips Exeter Academy and throughout his career was very prominent in college activities. Besides being president of the Monthly and an officer in the Dramatic Club, he was the winner of the Matthews Scholarship for three years and the Bowdoin prize. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Student Council and several social clubs...
...been treated in this way before, it is an interesting experiment. It is interesting also because of the problem before this University of teaching men with good brains to know how to use them. In the first part of the year, this course gives a description of every career to which college learning can lead, with an account of preparatory academic courses and an outline of the types of temperament fitted for each career. In the second part of the year, instruction is given in some of the simple laws of attention, memory, association of ideas, and habit, which...
...school in New Zealand and later entered Cambridge University, England, where he attained considerable distinction in mathematics and law. After graduating in 1897, he was elected a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and a year later accepted a position at New Zealand University where he began his career as an educator, serving successively as professor of mathematics, dean of the faculty of law, and finally as fellow of the university. In 1907 he became professor of mathematics at Columbia, and two years later was appointed to the position which he now holds as president of the Massachusetts Institute...