Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College graduates who desire to pursue a political career should first of all join a local party club," said Frank L. Polk, Under Secretary of State in the Wilson administration, when be was interviewed at the Union yesterday, where he presided at a luncheon of the National Municipal League...
When Mr. Polk was asked what in his opinion was the second step to take after joining a political party, he said: "There are various and equally advantageous modes of preparation. It so happens that the majority of men in politics have been trained for a career before the bar, because on entering a law office they have been immediately thrown into intimate contact with legislation. There is no reason, however, for supposing that the law is the best preparation...
...four speakers at the Union last year were President A. L. Lowell '77, on the choosing of a career; the Honorable C. W. Wickersham '06, of New York, attorney general of the United States under President Taft; Gerald Swope, of New York, president of the General Electric Company; and Bishop William Lawrence '71, of Boston. The talks over the two years have discussed as careers, public life and the law, business, the ministry, engineering, teaching, government, and the opportunities in medicine, surgery and public health...
...When I was still a young boy I was bitten by the stage bug", Mr. Stone admitted, "and I started my career in my father's barn on our ranch in Colorado arrayed in a red flannel shirt and red woolen under-drawers...
That the student employment bureau is to function in earnest comes as good news for all. Statistics were hardly necessary to prove that Harvard has been behind other universities in smoothing out the financial difficulties of a college career. While the Committee on Vocations reports a high degree of success in its efforts toward placing men after graduation, and the present bureau has always handled well requests for summer positions, there has been not enough of that more important aid throughout the college year to which that revised bureau will especially devote itself. It is the lack of such encouragement...