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Many young graduates have the old Yankee idea that they belong where the opportunity for material gain is greatest and easiest. Told to go forward, but not where, graduates of the past fifty years seemed to have evolved the tradition of money-grubbing by seeking positions which would pay the highest salaries merely because they did pay them. During the industrialization of the last century most millionaires made their wealth without social regard and only thought of society post facto--sometimes to ease their conscience. The desire for security--which involves comfort, leisure, marriage--is intelligent, but the ambition...
...come home from the trip with a majority of wins, the nine will have to be in top shape. The opener with Virginia on Tuesday will be no setup for the southerners have a fine team with plenty of hitting strength. Navy should prove to be the easiest encounter on the tour, while Georgetown will be by far the toughest. The Friars usually produce one of the best outfits in Eastern seaboard college circles. Lafayette is more or less of an unknown quantity, but Columbia will definitely be hard to beat. The Crimson trimmed them twice last year...
Ample illustration of this test-tube slavery is provided by a sample course of an honors concentrator. The first year is the easiest, with Chemistry A and Physics C depriving him of only two or three afternoons a week. But the Sophomore must solemnly bid farewell to sunshine and blue skies above, for the official maximum estimate of his laboratory hours in Chemistry 2 and Chemistry 3 is nineteen per week and he will do well to finish his work in that time. The Junior, with Chemistry 4 and Chemistry 6, practically establishes residence in the laboratories. The catalog estimates...
...Crimson Varsity, weakened by the loss of Captain Dan Skinner, Scott Long, and Bob Miller, was not impressive against a team which was supposedly one of the easiest squads in its schedule...
...Kansas City is the easiest place in the country in which to straighten out a case. . . No State is shunned more consistently by professionals [than Connecticut]. . . . There is comparatively little fixing of Federal agents. . . . There are probably many honest coppers, but if so most of them are out in the sticks. . . . When the Eye (Pinkertons) are brought in ... that is bad. They don't think of anything except catching thieves...