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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Make "Back Yard" Machine Possible...
Many men in the University who have been unable to make the team in past years are expected to compete for the silver medals which are awarded to the winner of the final bout in each class...
...handle other men or to mix with them, his continual complaints, oral and written, to his immediate superior and to the head of the business; all made him about as popular as a thunder storm at a picnic. His routine reports, the business analyses he was employed to make, were clear and sound, but each of them was signed with a flourish: "Thomas Dean, Ph.D.' This man has never been able to hold a job permanently...
...fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma gives them eighty-seven times as much chance--while a college education makes them eight hundred times as likely to succeed. But the fact that such incidents as the above do still happen should be sufficient to make us more guarded against assuming any over-confidence. Success is by no means guaranteed by education. What has been said before still applies today, that education...
...committee in charge of these occasions is endeavoring to make them even more interesting and informal than in past years, and to bring the students at Harvard into cordial relationship with the Faculty and their wives. The teas give to men an opportunity to come in contact with those who are most prominent in the life of the University...