Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his dramatic career during his undergraduate days at Harvard, when his "Proserpina" was presented as the Hasty Pudding Club show...
Pres. Angell said the week-end exodus from New Haven had become a serious matter, adding that "this extension work for Yale" should be curtailed. He said week-ends should be spent at New Haven making social contacts, an essential part of the college career...
...popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant...
...often does the Harvard student realize too late the full importance of his Freshman record on the ultimate complexion of his college career. The truth of this statement will bcome more and more apparent to the student as he progresses through the various stages of his assimilation to the Harvard educational methods. The system of divisional examinations with its unlimited opportunities for individual effort and interest is not as a rule appreciated until the Junior or even the Senior year. And then it is often found that the student lacks the prerequisite requirements for the attainmnt of his newly appointed...
...Baker Library strikes at the very heart of the attitude which has pervaded all the Harvard University libraries, when he says, "compulsion in the use of the library facilities ceases at an early stage: opportunity in the employment of its unusual resources persists throughout the student's career...