Word: latter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward the pursual of a path midway between the strictly academic and the purely utilitarian; a second explanation might attribute the change to the added equipment and personnel of the Business School suggesting possibilities for the incipient graduate. In the latter case a ground training in the principles of Economics would probably prove of more value than a steeping in the Classics, English, or Chemistry...
...younger of them from allurement that no longer tempts burnt children in the upper classes, Humanitarianism, even if unsupported by a common love of parents for offspring, should prompt the amalgamated parents of Boston ton consider the feelings of the mothers and fathers of Harvard sons. Too often this latter, less prominent group tardily discovers that an earnest devotion to the Boston side of a Harvard education cuts short the availability of Harvard itself...
...enthusiasm for Hoover theories, besides technical knowledge. He is likely to be an idealist with a social aim, rather than a practitioner of skilled self-interest. Typical Hoover men are George Barr Baker, publicist; Archibald Wilkinson Shaw, commercial economist; Dr. Vernon Lyman Kellogg, zoölogist. The latter, permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, may be taken as the ideal Hoover...
...Just as a surgeon does not commit himsa (killing), but practices the purest ahimsa (non-killing) when he wields his knife on his patient's body for the latter's benefit, similarly one may find it necessary ... to go a step further and sever life from the body in the interest of the sufferer...
...Freshman Class responded unusually well to the call for candidates in September. Some '25 experienced and 175 unexperienced men reported. The latter began in the Leviathan at once, thereby eliminating the drabness of machine, work, and were soon placed in barges under the direction of Coach Halnes. These men culminated their fall rowing with an, interdormitory race on November...