Word: drift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first issue of "The Review," the new weekly magazine in which a large number of graduates of the University are actively interested, was published recently in New York. The purpose of the journal is to "resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation." Harold deW. Fuller '98, A.M. '00, Ph.D. '07; formerly editor of "The Nation" is treasurer of the weekly, and Rodman Gilder 99 is business manager...
...maintenance of those things which must be preserved if the nation is to remain a people of self-reliant freemen. The publication of "The Review' has been actuated by a recognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation...
...regeneration of the University it is necessary for those students who have been in service to get back to duty at Cambridge at the earliest possible moment. It is a good sign that the College Office is making preparations to handle two thousand registrants today, and expects more to drift in during the next few weeks as they obtain their discharges from services. The plea of resuming one's college education is frequently the only one which causes an application for immediate discharge to be considered, especially in the Navy. Thus does the Government indicate its appreciation of the importance...
...individually fitted. Such a survey should be made at Harvard. There are many men here willing and able to give valuable service whose lack of acquaintance and connection with business concerns will prevent them rendering it. Such men, without an organized survey of capabilities and needs, are likely to drift into comparatively unimportant summer employment for which they may not be especially fitted. To be sure, this undertaking would entail considerable expansion of the College Employment Bureau or the creation of a new organization. But the labor or two thousand men for four months is net an insignificant item...
...natural for a young man, upon coming to Harvard from a strange land, to feel that he is an outsider, with few social interests in common with the native students. Unless such an attitude is checked at the start the foreigner will drift along through his college career without ever realizing an important phase of Harvard...