Word: careering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell will speak primarily for Seniors on "Choosing a Career" at the Union next Friday night at 7.30 P. M., according to an announcement made last night by the newly formed Committee on The Choice of Vocations...
Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, outlined Mr. Nansen's career yesterday in an interview for the CRIMSON. "Mr. Nansen's first claim to fame arose through a deed 30 years ago, when he tried to reach the north pole by a new route. He believed that there was a warm current which carried the ice across the north pole, and he conceived the idea of building a special boat, which ice would not crush but which would be pushed on top of an ice floe. He intended to freeze the boat into...
...while he was a reader in a London publishing house. He showed it to friends and then, after much difficulty, persuaded Sir J. M. Barrie to write a preface for it. To lend artistic verisimilitude to this unconvincing narrative, he adds fascinating details of Miss Ashford's subsequent career, and even fells how she spent her royalties...
...other hand, by requiring a man before graduating to pass a general examination in American government which he would take sometime during his college career, the problem could be more easily solved. This plan would demand no dark and foreboding compulsory course to be staggered through but merely a general knowledge of a subject which every American citizen cannot know too well. We would thus be taking another step forward in the promotion of better citizenship. J. B. Squies...
...Montespan, for example, is made to take poison and die, in his play; in reality, she survived this episode by twenty-seven years. But no one can read the play and not be convinced that her suicide was the logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering career. The author show an ambitious, ruthless woman, frightened by the approach of age and the failing devotion of the king into the most desperate measures for retaining her remarkable domination. While the king amuses himself with younger, prettier women, La Montespan performs the most diabolical, awful sacrifices in the belief that...