Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something like this has been said before. The banker believes that college life develops "lazy habits of thinking," that it is too soft and easy. Yet the fact remains that many Wall Street houses give preference to college men as beginners, and the percentage of men with collegiate training who have done well in business and finance in New York City must be very high. Yet there must be times when, puzzled how to decide among the qualifications of more boys than there is room for, Dean Gauss and Dean Hoermance wish that Mr. Carlisle might win a few prosolytes...
...much the debs would prefer to be educated, instead of just cultured, how much they'd give for an evening with Spinoza or Kant, or one at a concert or a less stylish but heavier play. Picture the deb, with all these thwarted intellectual desires--dancing, dancing her life away, and all because the omnipotent Moloch makes it clear that she is to do or die. Too few of us accord her the full sympathy she deserves...
...Palmer is a powerful bond connecting the little New England college of the seventies with the University of today. He is one who grew with the growth of Harvard; who saw, the while his own name attained distinction, the institution he represented increasing likewise in influence and renown. His life through the years of his active teaching here ran a course of development parallel to that of Harvard; nor has he allowed himself since his retirement to follow merely at a distance the march of the University. His dwelling, and in the fuller meaning, his life, have remained within...
...greater percentage of the American show-going public college life in one long, gloriffed vacation according to an editorial in the Daily Northwestern Movies like "College Love" and "The, Collegians" provide people with the most distorted idea of a student's career. Novels such as "Fraternity Row" do their bit to add to these impressions. Even the well-meaning "College Humor" gives a one-sided picture...
...serious, work-filled life at a university might almost as well be non-existent. Exploitation of collegiate Fords, fraternity, parties and infractions of rules has created an impression on the public mind that is pitiably false...