Word: grad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is part and parcel of the young-old grad, or Conrad, complex. But one of its principal ingredients has not been mentioned the challenge to middle age implied in the class secretary's facetious and back-slapping form letter. "Here are the old names, the old setting," it says in effect; "we dare you to fit yourself again into the picture...
...fact he seemed to think it was one of his regular courses, for he started to assemble his hat and coat when he judged the last paragraph had begun. And as the applause died out he too clapped his hands together once and decorously departed. M. S. ENSLIN, Grad...
...striking thing is how often the "old grad" draws upon material as the bases for his recollections entirely outside any courses he had in college. He recalls vividly his experiences in the Glee Club, or on the Crew, or playing football--but his continuous day-in and day-out class-room work seems to him frequently fused into one vague and blurred memory...
...while in college; if the college product "is in the tangible form of human character and service," as Chancellor Brown of New York University recently said; then it is possible to draw some conclusions concerning the much-discussed 'extra-curriculum' activities. Someone remarked not long ago that a "grad" returns to see classmates, not to refresh his memory (if any) of Horace. Mr. Gavit says that "the student's becoming depends on the kind of men he comes in contact with...
...grad" decisions that memories of an eating club similar to those being organized at the Union are his pleasantest recollections from college days. A group of ten, from all classes in the College and from various graduate schools, met for each meal, and stayed at the table often for an hour or more afterward, discussing any topic that happened to arise. Their group was as diverse as possible, including a football letter-man, a poet, prospective doctors and lawyers, a Crimson editor, and an embryo philosopher. The friendships of this group, he says, have lasted more strongly than any others...