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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicion of the fallibility of the statistics that are so often used to demonstrate the greatly superior earning power of college men has started an investigation of these figures at Columbia. In the new division of Economics of Education, graduate students are delving for the human equation beneath the never questioned fact that each year of formal education equals a step in a geometric progression of salary increases. The leader of the research, Dr. Clark, says confidently "We believe that we are on the road to finding a startling reversal of facts that will affect the whole economic foundation...
...American undergraduate is supposed to suffer, on occasions, from nearly every ailment in the oldest or newest medical catalogue. The symptoms are so often of a very complex nature that it is almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most...
...traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate, but rather to those who might be ranked in the Army of the Unemployed. The sinners have salvation in their own hands, but for the plodding saint there is too often only the satisfaction of a fleeting glimpse at Parnassus...
...wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished mother, whom...
...replied, "Oxford is much more leisurely--if we are going to a class we start early so that we can walk slowly and converse enroute. One never sees students bustling around to a lecture with only a few minutes left in which to arrive there. Your Yard is often deserted but one may always see men strolling leisurely around our campus smoking and talking. There seems to be more of a spirit of comraderie...