Word: careers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meaning of democracy featured the exercises held in Sanders Theatre by the Cambridge Historical Society Saturday evening in honor of the poet's hundredth birthday anniversary. William Roscoe Thayer '81 who presided referred to Lowell as the greatest ambassador America ever had President Eliot '53 reviewed Lowell's career as a professor at the University...
...birth of Abraham Lincoln. The great principles of progressive civilization, which he firmly upheld during the dark days of the Civil War, are strikingly analagous to those which this nation has maintained in the war just brought to a successful conclusion. When Death cut short the full but unfinished career of Lincoln, thereby bringing loss equally to friend and foe, his plans for national reconstruction were based upon the lasting principles of "malice toward none, charity to all, firmness in the right." In a broad sense these are the ideals which America is even now staunchly upholding at the Peace...
...Legal Aid Bureau has had a very successful career since it was started in 1914. Its purpose is to offer free legal aid and advice to those who cannot afford to consult an attorney. This year, since January 13, over forty cases have been submitted and considered. The work will probably be continued through the summer term, on account of the special session. The office of the Bureau is in the Cambridge Neighborhood House, Harvard and Moore streets...
...directly opposite to this conception we find President Hadley planning for Yale a course of instruction which makes specialization its cardinal principle. A series of pre-professional studies will be required of the first- or second-year undergraduate. In taking up these subjects before the close of his college career, the student will be enabled to complete his professional training sooner. This is distinctly contrary to our conception of college education. On the one hand we find Yale embarking upon a system of early professionalism, and on the other hand we find Harvard clinging to the doctrine of "liberal education...
...arriving at the end of their college days, how many men have found themselves lonely, unknown to their classmates! How many, in looking back over their college career, have recognized their mistakes too late. General Johnston once exclaimed, when he had missed a train, "I ran fast enough but I didn't start soon enough...