Word: exoduses
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...life" at Yale, it will not be possible to make young men 100 per cent content with a "city college." Week-ending is not caused by a dissatisfaction with the University, but by a fervent eagerness to get a change in atmosphere. Those who wish to discourage our "exodus" do so without a real understanding of the problem...
...Since my last visit to this country eight years ago I have noticed a considerable exodus of professors and researchers from the universities to the patronage of commercial interests. Large businesses attract scholars away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course...
...requirement from 90 days to 42. In the Senate Committee on Public Morals one group argued to delay the Senate vote until the last minute, to prevent the bill being matched by any other state; another faction urged that it be rushed through, effective May 1, to forestall an exodus of Reno's divorce colony...
George Van Santvoord, whimsical one time instructor and assistant professor of English at Yale, now headmaster of Hotchkiss School, last week wrote an article for the Yale News in which he purported to explain the plan of a Yale student's father for solving the week-end exodus problem current at New Haven. Wrote Mr. Van Santvoord : "For this purpose he proposes to lease the Hotel Biltmore [in Manhattan]. Students enrolling in Biltmore College will pay an annual fee of $5,000. One week-end absence will be allowed each" term for attendance at the Yale-Harvard game. . . . Each...
...writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average academic Sabbath, but the one factor that is most in tune with the scholastic scheme of things has escaped observation...