Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These sportive moments are among the things which make Cambridge bearable in summer. Hot and sultry weather may come--in fact it usually does--but as a reward one has the opportunity to view humanity in the raw on the banks of the Charles. Three years ago this week saw some of the hottest and most unpleasant weather ever known to man settled on a parched university. One lived on the river banks, along with hundreds of others; nocturnal wanderings were valuable as laboratory experiments in Biology. When the siege was over life went on as usual, with the added...
...Senior Album, large, well edited, informative, has appeared with its interesting records and its invaluable picture gallery. With it come statistics, none of prime importance, all offering more or less of an insight into the minds of incipient alumni. That inclusive giant "Business" is hailed as the favored occupation, while the professions follow below in varying degrees of popularity. Sports, such as Painting, Radio Engineering, and Oil Refining occur and there is, of course, a large number of men who did not signify their future work...
...lawyer, a physician. For him the opportunities for changes of mind are rare. Different is the case with the Arts and Sciences men; their goal is vague, indefinite. In consequence many men now leaning toward teaching prefer to reserve their decision until the further study which has come to be a requisite to success in education has solved their problem, in the meantime their status continues to be that of "student", although in reality their position is as much one of orientation as that of the man who is floundering uncertainly during his first two or three years...
...days of June have been variously made famous for their warmth, roses and weddings, but to the educational world they signify the season of commencements. For the past two weeks colleges all over the country have been holding their graduation exercises, and simultaneously has come another phenomenon that has accompanied them of recent years. As the number of students graduated shows a steady increase, the peri's of "mass-production" in education become apparent in many journalistic offices and there appears a succession of editorials "viewing with alarm" this development. Last week the size of the graduating class at Columbia...
...Nebraska farmers this time come very near to typifying the attitude of the country as a whole towards the present political season. At Houston, where the Democrats convene soon after, interest reached apt a low pitch that Tex Rickard engaged "one-Eye' Connoly, champion gate-crasher in the world, to crash the gates at the convention and supply and element of competition that would otherwise be lacking. With the choice of each party fairly certain and there being an even stronger certainly that the one real issue, prohibition, will never find expression in the platforms, most of the nation...