Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a second element in the situation. The undergraduate is often making ill-considered choices in selecting his future work; or worse, he is drifting into the first business that comes along, only to drift out again into something else. There is too much wasted effort, too little information about the character of various kinds of business or profession. Many an undergraduate takes his most important step in the dark...
...over the country to surrender their charters and become state institutions, and to the danger which this development holds for the Reserve System, which is, of course, based upon the national banking system He neglected to add, probably with no little self-restraint, that one great reason for the drift to state charters is the constant government interference with national banks through continued tinkering with the Federal Reserve Act by Washington politicians...
...reminiscence, an influence in University policy, and the responsibility for the University's continued existence. Even with card-index systems and efficient secretaries tracing the graduate, it rests on his won initiative largely whether he assumes this new relation to University life at once, or allows himself to drift away...
Both banquet and Blue Book were originally founded with the idea of binding the class together. Through Sophomore and Junior years it is especially easy for the members of a class to drift apart to the four corners of Cambridge. When the Senior year arrives, unless something has been done to counteract such a tendency, the list of lost, strayed, and stolen is and to be long. The Blue Book, an unpretentious volume, will narrate the class activities for the year, list each member with his individual record, and serve as a handy directory. As long...
...oppressed to have them vibrate painfully upon our nerves and conscience. The enthusiasm produced in the fever of the war days has given place to the peril of waning idealism. Nothing could be more dangerous, if these are the facts, than to close our minds and hearts, and to drift on. I am not a prophet of pessimism, but I am aware of that ancient saying: "He who cries peace, peace, when there is no peace, shall be cursed...