Word: careers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Office has been under the official aegis of the College, since 1936 the branch at the Harvard Club in New York has been similarly organized. Harvard has definitely assumed a measure of responsibility for its graduates, and particularly for those negotiating the thorny way from college to career...
...modern basis with a General Staff. Of this work Root remarked: "I made the Army my client." If Root had been a candidate, Theodore Roosevelt might not have become President when McKinley was shot, and Theodore Roosevelt's distant cousin might not have been started on a political career, the fortunate possessor of a great name...
...contemporaries agreed that Pushkin was great, but posterity has made it nearly unanimous. Called "the founder of Russian literature," compared to Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pushkin in his own day seemed more Byronic than anything else. So avidly did he pursue his rakehell career that it seems a miracle he had any energy left for writing, that he lasted as long as he did (38 years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid...
...cannot, however, do every jobs well. A thorough and systematic appraisal of business and industrial opportunities for college men will reveal to him the elements of jobs which for him will make for congenial or uncongenial employment, and will permit his weighing of factors necessary for planning a satisfying career. Second, employers expect college men seeking work to have a specific objective and to speak with conviction of the choice they have made and reasons for that choice. For a college senior to define his objectives in the business world this becomes an effective aid to him in the strenuous...
...becoming a place of vocational training in the narrow sense", says the Crimson. "It will seek to provide a thorough grounding in the fundamental principles and problems of public administration without reference to the branch of the public service which its graduates may enter, although it is expected that career men on leave may orient their work more definitely than recent graduates...