Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relation between high marks in college and success in later life remains an interesting, and for lack of trustworthy evidence, a puzzling problem. It is complicated by the fact that such success is so various that it is impossible to lay down a universal standard by which men's relative attainments can be measured. Wealth, eminence in public affairs, social usefulness and historical fame are all legitimate objects of human endeavor, and none can be set above the rest or even expressed in terms of any other...
President Lowell's investigation into the records of students in the professional schools of Law and Medicine show an amazingly close correspondence between distinctions gained in college and those later attained in the professional schools. Professor Hollingsworth's recent book on "Vocational Psychology" summarizes some interesting data obtained by other investigators. One of these, Nicholson, took the records of 1,667 graduates of Wesleyan University and arranged them in three groups as follows: 140 men who were valedictorians or salutatorians of their classes, 461 men who were members of Phi Beta Kappa and the remaining 1,066 who had attained...
...Crimson and business editor of the Monthly. Immediately on leaving college he was engaged in newspaper work on the New York Tribune for two years. Thereafter for nine years he was active in the manufacturing and mercantile business. After that he was engaged in the banking business, later entering the J. P. Morgan firm. He is also a director of various corporations. Mr. Lamont is "the man behind" the movement for the $10,000,000 fund to be added to the vested interests of the University...
...been of the highest order. He has eminently performed every task assigned him, particularly in modernizing and perfecting our drill regulations, successfully carrying out the field tests of the Provisional Regiment in 1912, as a distinguished member of the General Staff Corps, as military attaché to Berlin, and later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct loss, he is ordered to Washington to undertake a task of greater responsibility and importance to the nation. Captain Bjornstad is a splendid man with a master mind...
...Brown baseball schedule has been released. The schedule includes 18 games, five less than last year, with one date still open. The shorter schedule is due to the season opening a little later than in previous years...