Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drift Back to Economics...
...being confined to one division, will be required of practically every man in College. Those who specialize in English and other subjects will have to undergo comprehensive tests similar to that which has been the rule in Economics. In view of this prospect, there are already signs of a drift back toward Economics. But English still leads...
Little attempt is made at Harvard to develop "Class Spirit." After the Freshman year, the undergraduates drift into certain groups, guided more by congeniality than any though of Class. This is entirely natural, and is the best way of forming friendships, but it leaves the Class at the end of the Junior year with little unity. To allow this condition to continue after graduation would be regrettable, as the Class is the strongest link between the graduate and the college. Class reunions and dinners are what bring him back to Cambridge and keep him in touch with Harvard...
...true Liberalism. When the fashionable fervor of some undergraduates draws the admission that Liberalism is a curtain behind which they conceal the propagation of plans for radical action; that there are only two parties to the struggle for "domination," viz., the Conservatives and the Radicals; and that the Liberals drift a vacillating course through the wake of the struggle of the first two, it is time it be understood what Liberalism is. The knowledge may serve the purpose of showing the folly of the juvenile antics of those anaemic undergraduates who parade to class with 'The Liberator" displayed around their...
...only will class spirit be cemented, but the close sympathy and support so vital to the life of the University will be gained. The contact of the average graduate with the alma mater is not intimate, and in the active life of the business world the tendency to drift away from college affairs is marked. No more acutely was this realized than in the recent work on the Endowment Fund...