Word: careers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have been the basis of election, and a conscientious attempt has been made to do justice to every eligible name. In determining the elections, scholarship grades alone have not been the ultimate grounds for decision; the difficulty of the courses taken and the student's progress throughout his college career have also received due consideration. The names are arranged alphabetically and not according to rank or order of election...
...have crowded out the main circus, and the varied undergraduate activities, to be sure both "active and interesting," are attracting the main body of students. The number of men who come to college with the intention of pursuing scholarship as their chief interest from the start of their academic career is lamentably small, for young men realize that at present the activities of the scholar are not attended with band playing or cheering. Almost unnoticed and unknown the man who devotes himself primarily to the cause of scholarship labors incessantly for four years and finally receives graduation honors...
Never has there been a more critical moment in Harvard's athletic career than will be marked by the game tomorrow afternoon. Since Coach Haughton took charge of the team the series with Yale has resulted in a victory, a defeat, and two tie games. A victory tomorrow will prove to all that the rejuvenation of football at Harvard is a permanent matter and not a mere flash...
...baseball squad ended last Thursday, after a period of about five weeks, during which twenty-six games were played. A good opportunity was thus offered for examinations of the material at hand. Considering the limitations for development imposed on an undergraduate, playing perhaps only eighty games during his college career, the large number of vacant positions to be filled, and the inadequacy of cage work, the motives for the fall practice are clear. The results have been in some degree satisfactory...
...commanding officers required by the reserve project. Five hundred graduates of each university in training under officer's salary would soon supply the number. As in Germany, only a year would be required for training and this period would not greatly interfere with a man's career, while its consequence to the nation would be of extreme importance...