Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...period of economic depression boys who would otherwise go into business are sent to college instead because jobs are scarce. This undoubtedly is a cause of the gain in some of the graduate departments; it is the cause of the coming to college of a good many older men; but I doubt very much if it accounts to any large degree for the size of the Freshman class. Two years ago when many colleges had enormous enrollments, we heard that the cause was prosperity. Now we hear that the cause of enormous enrollments is adversity. Both arguments can hardly...
Those who read all their little pamphlets faithfully have noticed that the parietal regulations are becoming stricter. There was formerly a well known rule which said, "No young women unattended by an older woman as chaperon SHOULD be received in a student's room." This year the corresponding rule reads, "No young women unattended by an older woman as chaperon MAY be received in a student's room...
After the exercises, the members of the society will march from Sanders to the Union, where luncheon will be served. In the formation of this procession the members from the older classes will load, so that the column will be arranged in order of seniority. Tickets for the dinner should be obtained in advance, and may be purchased by all members of the Harvard Chapter for $2.50 at Kent's University Bookstore. The members of other chapters are also invited to the dinner, but they must receive a written order from Professor William Guild Howard '91, Corresponding Secretary...
Just now there seems to be a feeling among some of the older generation that the college man deserves criticism for the training he receives. It is the self-made man who knows things and the college man who deludes himself, and wastes his time becoming an ignoramus. That the young are not the only ones laboring under this delusion is one of the conclusions to be drawn from statistics recently published concerning the correspondence courses in thirteen universities. Of the forty-thousand "going to college by mail", a large majority were far past youth. They ranged from young clerks...
Today for a few hours those New England alumni who are able to do so will renew their acquaintance with the University of everyday. On the surface, to the older graduates in particular, it will probably seem that times have changed tremendously. Fundamentally, however, undergraduate existence does not vary much from one generation to another. The spirit and outlook of men who are receiving an education are essentially the same year after year...