Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alcohol Like a Drug...
...pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe...
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...
...trouble originates from those who would like to seem to be what they are not. Carelessness in registration accounts for a considerable number of errors in the University records. Plain mistakes in spelling are often found in these records. Failure to put the last name first in registration is the cause of much confusion, making it quite possible for a man to be registered under two different names in various offices of the college. This season's record for mistakes is now held by one man who has achieved the doubtful triumph of being registered under three names...
George Herbert Palmer remains almost alone of the great generation of men like Royce and Santayana, that surrounded President Eliot during the early years of his administration. In a very real sense, Professor 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...