Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this long and not inexpensive training what may one expect in practical rewards? Initial instructors' salaries range from $1500 to $2000. After three or four years of successful work, during which period there would probably be some advance in salary, a good man normally secures an assistant professorship in the institution where he began teaching, or elsewhere, carrying a salary somewhere between $2000 and $3000. From this point on rapidity of advance varies greatly, depending chiefly on the individual's ability and consecration to his work, on the type of institution in which he lands...
...expect to compete for this debate are urged to study the subject of international recognition in general and Russian recognition in particular, during the summer. At a recent meeting of the Council one of the graduates who may coach this team emphasized the need of knowing the subject thoroughly long before the debate in order that the men can talk fluently and correctly on the subject...
That there even exists a Harvard Memorial Society will be news to many graduates and undergraduates--yet apparently, the Society is an ancient and honorable one; and indeed, in choosing this year's undergraduate members, the Society has exercised that good judgment which one would naturally expect from an old and well-sponsored organization. But at the same time, since the purpose of the Society is "to foster among students and graduates interest in the historical associations of Harvard and to perpetuate the traditions of her past", a little more publicity might well be desirable...
...does not expect, of course, to find Professor Palmer shouting "Reinhardt" about the Yard in the evenings; that is because this particular tradition is not especially worth while perpetuating. Nor is Mr. Conant the bell-ringer likely to awake some winter morning to find the clapper of his bell frozen to the sides by President Lowell, for obviously, this also is one of those jovial performances which, genuinely humorous the first time, rapidly becomes mere routine, without any better excuse for itself than an empty and eventually boresome precedent. There is, never theless, a rich and colorful store of Harvard...
...NERVOUS WRECK?Fills the great open spaces with smashed crockery; rather funnier than you'd expect...