Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tambourine he resolved to win was high place in the medical profession. As a freshman at Stanford, he watched Curtis Dwight begin a law career in Los Angeles ? a career that was to take him to the Superior Court bench. Ray Lyman kept his head down, studied in Germany and England, returned, taught physiology at Stanford ? and became Stanford's presi dent...
Unquestionably the trip to Paris, where King Alexander conferred secretly with that stern greybeard Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, marked the turning-point in the royal career. Jugoslavia is the "little ally" of France, and the statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home...
...becomes aware of phases of the life of the University that were unknown before. He meets visitors of world-prominence; and seeks with equal eagerness the photographs of European exchange professors and of ponderous teeth newly-discovered in the Dental School. Though each individual experience in his CRIMSON career may be of slight importance, nevertheless, there results a background of knowledge which is immensely valuable throughout his undergraduate years. He has learned where to go for information of all kinds when he desires it, and this intimacy with his surroundings gives him a self-assurance which many first-year...
...advantage and the capable undergraduate will more nearly approach an understanding of his field sufficient for him to attempt a small specialized job in the form of a thesis in his final year. From a hurdle for the honors men the divisional becomes the natural consummation of a college career to which none should look forward with trepidation...
With the appearance of its February number today the Advocate joins the ranks of those who have registered unqualified opposition to the House Plan. Two articles, "On the Passing of Harvard College" by Theodore Hall, Jr. '29 and the "Academic and Philanthropic Career of Gustavus Adolphus Parker" by Philip Nichols Jr. '29 receive editorial backing in a sweeping, and on the whole lively, denunciation of the new scheme...