Word: mcconn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonders a little whether Dean McConn of Lehigh is not trying a little too hard to see exclusively out of the rose colored half of his bifocals. In a recent article in the North American Review he vigorously applauds the decision among hosts of undergraduates to devote only a compulsory minimum of time to their studies and lavish the remainder upon outside activities. He makes the plausible statement that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that...
Last year the first prize was awarded to C. M. McConn, who was in the Graduate School at the time, for an essay entitled "The Breadth of Time". The second prize was won by M. A. Kister Jr., who was then an out of course candidate for degree, for an essay entitled "A Modern Novel...
...George Wigglesworth '74, who presided as President of the Union, presented six prizes. In the Union Essay Contest, Charles Maxwell McConn 1G. of Cambridge was awarded first prize for an essay entitled "The Breadth of Time", and Mark Alexis Kister Jr. ocC., second for one entitled "A Modern Novel". The winners of the four Freshman prizes for high scholastic standing in class activities were: Henry Traugott Dunkor of Davenport, Ia.; Mason Hammond of Nahant, Mass.; Robert Poulson Howe of New York City; and Howard Parker Sharp of Pittsburgh...
...prize essay contest held by the Union, the first prize has been won by Charles Maxwell McConn 1G. of Cambridge, for an essay entitled "The Breadth of Time". The second prize was won by Mark Alexis Kister Jr. ocC, of Glens Falls, N. Y., for an essay entitled "A Modern Novel". Honorable mention has been given to George Gerard Tunell Jr. E.S. of Chicago, Ill. and to George Estes Barton 2nd '25 of Millville...
...serve as an evidence of qualification for a business position is not the primary purpose of college degree. Even if it wear Mr. McConn's collection of degrees would hardly serve as an open sesame to the business world. Suppose a young man hands his prospective employer a record saying that he had done excellent work in Vergil but poorly in the appreciation of music while in anthropology the work was handicapped by intention and tendency to sleep during lectures what does the employer know of the qualifications of that man for a business position? The single course...