Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observing their business progress, it is to see how they have utilized the knowledge of the trade they learned at the reformatory. "For of course," Dr. Glueck said, "many of these young men became criminals for lack of knowing anything else to do. On the other hand we find great numbers of the men, at the end of the five-year period back in jail somewhere or in an insane...
...relaxation from this prescribed labor, however, the Vagabond will find time this morning to bend his steps toward Harvard Hall, where there will be two lectures on literature, the first of these taking place at 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 where Professor Murdock will speak on Nathaniel Hawthorne. At 11 o'clock the Vagabond will remove to Harvard 3 to hear Professor Murray on Sheridan...
...like the Freshman Red Book or the Senior Album, "a thing of beauty and a joy forever", with tooled leather covers, photographs of hundreds of fresh young faces, and a solace in boredom. There is little pleasure in looking up the numbers after the name of your friends to find how many knitted ties they are entitled...
...convinced that the situation is terrifying or even extraordinary. It does not seem much more sane to find an underlying cause for twenty-six suicides, than to try to prepare vital statistics from twenty-six isolated deaths. Nor are we sure that the percapita suicide pate is higher in colleges now than it was say twenty years ago. It approximates about one suicide to 5,000 students. It is not at all surprising that increase in the gross number of suicides should come with the tremendous increase in the number of students in college. Furthermore, even a per capita increase...
...memorial to these men should take. Dean Briggs, in his letter to their near relatives made public on January 19, 1926, wrote, ". . . . the University which these men have honored would make their memorial a church . . . a church in which the purest and highest life of the University shall find expression; a church in which the names and records of these Harvard soldiers may be to all who enter it a memory constant and enobling." Later in the year a tentative plan of the new chapel was published...