Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students coming to college for irrelevant reasons has threatened to swamp the true scholar. In 1895, the enrollment in American colleges was 45,000. At present it is 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...
...colleges are still far from their maximum efficiency, and many of the men who fail to get their degree might well be saved. Mr. Nichols' article explains the fundamental reason that underlies many failures, but there is no lack of opportunity for those seeking to perfect the educational organization...
...prove that the important thing about it all is the unimportance of minor details like these. The Marx brothers are distinctly the show, and by all means see them now for they may not be in these parts for a long time to come. The censor may even get them for making the audience laugh too much...
...likewise expected to have a big season. He starred on his Freshman eleven and with a great future as a Sophomore predicted for him he ran into the old scholastic snag from which he did not succeed in disentangling himself until the first of last fall. When he did get back into harness he immediately set out to prove that the confidence of two year's before was not misplaced. He did this in so convincing fashion that within a week or so of the opening of practice, he found himself firmly entrenched on the first team, a position from...
...annual fall University tennis tournaments will get under way by the first of next week by which time all first round matches in the Class A and B singles events must be played...