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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities must have good material to work upon, or the results will be disappointing. In addition, the knowledge acquired in an institution of higher learning is of little value unless it is put to practical usefulness. If, in studying for higher things, the young man becomes unfitted for lower things and regards his diploma as an Open Sesame to the wealth of the world, he may find himself outstripped by the shrewd, sure-footed, less cultured and less finicky competitor. I admit dreaming of big things, but I also admit wearing overalls for nine years...
Architect Harry Allen Jacobs outlined a plan for furnishing Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, with a double-decked sidewalk, supported by imposing columns, whereby the lower sidewalk could be narrowed to give more room to traffic. On elaborate charts hung here and there, the future of London, Manchester, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, the City of Mexico and wherenot were delineated...
...regular army, the A. E. F., and the National Guard, no such compulsion has ever been applied. Many of the men who attend summer camps are of legal age, while those who are not are generally youths whose characters are already pretty well formed, since seventeen is the lower age limit...
What are reason for this prevalent attitude? Primarily, an inadequate supply of tutors cannot give lower classmen a sufficient amount of their time to rouse interest in the work. Personal contact between student and teacher in its true form is not a reality. Secondly, it is doubtful whether tutorial work which receives no credit, at the college office stimulates enough interest in that work to warrant its maintenance on a large scale. At the present time, a student's scholastic standing depends, throughout his college course, solely on his course grades. The average student is not inclined to do work...
...foot-bridge which will lead from the lower reaches of De Wolf Street to the ash-dumps in hither Stadiumland, will not be, as popular belief would have it, a light and swaying bamboo structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk...