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...there not something more than an opportunity which should be offered to them? All men have not the force of character to walk forward on their own initiative and grasp such opportunity. Examples by the score can be found in the College today of men who have been pleasantly drifting through their four years here. Many such men get into the College in the first place because of a long family connection with Harvard, and it is fitting that they should be here. Looked at from a hard boiled point of view, if they are drifters it is their...
...representative stocks dropping from one to nine points on the New York Stock Exchange. Since early April the Standard Statistics stock average has dropped from 124.9 to 110.9. After more than a year of rising prices such a reaction was not precisely surprising. However, the market's downward drift was accompanied by something more than long faces in brokers' boardrooms...
...great flaws, in tutoring and in lecturing, may, in turn, account partly for the field's reputation as a "snap" and magnet of many men who care not a whit for the subject or for education generally. Once in the Department, lacking self-motive power, they continue to drift in the doldrums, with little departmental breeze to spur them onward. More than this, if the field is to shed its odious name, it must look to all its standards and requirements...
...fortunate are required to pass an examination at the end of Senior year which involves only a mere detailed rehashing of the material they have already covered. It may be said that men who fail the Junior departmental are not ready to specialize, but in any event they merely drift for a year...
DESERTS ON THE MARCH-Paul B. Sears-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Originally published by the University of Oklahoma Press last November, now republished by Simon & Schuster, this book gives a fascinating factual account of how deserts drift and spread, what can and is being done to stop them...