Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book.? As a small boy, Author Durant lived with his parents and his many brothers in factory towns of Massachusetts & New Jersey. His career as schoolboy differed little from that of any other intelligent schoolboy except that at an early age Author Durant received an invitation from a Roman Catholic Priest: "You must study more, and pray more, and always bear in mind that the church has chosen you to be one of our servants. . . ." For some years Jack (as Author Durant has chosen to call himself in these pages) accepts the invitation to be a priest...
...Taussig '79, Professor of Economics in the University, reached the conclusion that the growth of graduate schools will either force colleges out of existence or necessitate the adoption of a shorter undergraduate course. "America", stated Professor Taussig, "is unique in the long duration of schooling precedent to a professional career. With four years in college, two to four years in a graduate school, and several years of experience in practical affairs before a man is prepared for his profession, the average age of starting a career is 30. In many universities all over the country there is a tendency...
...harm to it, although benefiting a powerful and increasing minority. One must first consider whether or not a candidate can successfully complete requirements for an A.B. in any less than four years; and such reckoning should be accomplished, not on the presumption that he intends to pursue his academic career but on the consideration as to whether or not he may be properly termed an educated man at the end of that shorter period of time. If, at the end of the three years, the man is as well grounded in whatever constitutes "a general education" as he was following...
...that rises above routine. He is, as it happens, the pink-cheeked, Harvard-educated, quick-thinking grandson and namesake of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Besides being a shrewd reporter, long-legged Grandson Lodge is internationally-minded beyond his years (26) and is in training for a political career of his own. Personal interest was doubtless mixed with professional curiosity when Grandson Lodge pressed his inquiry and found 1) that the Department of State had not been consulted prior to the issuance of Assistant Secretary Lowman's order, 2) that Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon...
Such a man Harvard mourns, proud to have been the background of at least a part of his career. For Dr. Peabody's work was well done; and his influence, great and widespread, will keep his name alive for many years...