Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after that, as the school year books say, comes life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will find their end and aim behind a Woolworth red front; some will be realtors, though of course never Babbits. But enough of business pure: romance, too, has a word in what the graduate shall do. Hollywood, even from an administrative office, allures: but by the tropics the palm is held most...
Nowhere in the volume does Mr. Parsons dogmatize on debatable questions. The searcher after facts may find little satisfaction in the fair-minded discussions of divergent leading theories of problems in science, political history, and literature. There are no explanations offered; there is no padding of embarrassing gaps...
Students of the period will find the book a stimulating biography of the man who was the lone break in the chain of Stuart monarchy from Elizabeth to William of Orange. Those less familiar with the complex seventeenth century will enjoy contact with a singular personality...
...obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers by distorting any item of college news which might be made to appear sensational. The tabloid and the so-called "yellow press" find in the most insignificant events of college life a wealth of material for the exaggerated tales...
...Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been put on a sound basis. If the Club's development were restricted to this kind of inner strengthening rather than the hardiness of competition, the loss in adventure might find substantial compensation...