Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are irregular and unusual students, and so it will be hard to speak of them in categories. But, on broad lines and with necessary qualifications, it can be said that there are four classes of college students who suffer most from the mass-production methods which American colleges have necessarily adopted to fit their students for their places in a mass-production world...
...adventurers--those who long to be off to explore the material world, in airplanes, sailboats, and dog sleds, following the four winds, and sitting beside each of the seven seas...
...well over 500,000. Some of the new arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them to get good jobs as quickly as possible; others to make those contacts which are believed to be profitable in certain forms of business; others to postpone for four years the period of going to work; others to take part in the hurly-burly of athletics, fraternities, and other undergraduate activities which constitute college life; others, without any motive save that everybody else was doing...
...Chairmen of the Constituent Committees together with four elective officers compose the Cabinet, which is responsible for the plans and policies of the Association. The decisions of the Cabinet are subject to the approval of the Phillips Brooks House Committee, which at present consists of the following members...
Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., has been detailed to duty as Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard. Captain Wygant will be in charge of the Naval Science Department and four of the five members of his teaching staff will be new to the College. The names of three of his assistants have just been made public, the fourth has not yet been made known, and Lieutenant Commander L. J. Wiltsie, who served throughout the year 1928-29, will again be an assistant professor of Naval Science and Tactics...