Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the University and Freshman debating teams yesterday afternoon, a plan was outlined which will give the 1924 team the benefit of the experience of the older men. To effect this, the work of each Freshman debater, in preparation for the triangular debate with Princeton and Yale on April 15th, will be under the supervision of one of the older...
...need for volunteers is still urgent. There are a large number of standing petitions for aid either for boys' club work, associated charities (for older men) or for teaching. Social Service as done by University students, consists chiefly of boys' club work; of teaching, both foreigners and Sunday School classes; of athletic coaching; of entertainments, musical and otherwise; of associated charities, juvenile court, infirmary, and hospital work. There are still two more months of the College year during which social service work can be done to great advantage, and all men who feel they have the time are requested...
...young man, home from preschool on a long vacation, seeing older acquaintances come home from colleges on similar vacations, but Harvard acquaintances on very abbreviated ones, this circumstance could be the deluding element in a choice of college. For unless he has violent prejudice for Harvard he may have arrived at the point of neutrality in his estimate of several collages, and then it is the pounding of small factors, perhaps mostly unconsciously, that strengthen or weaken his regard for Harvard. Altho in the actual choosing of a college a student may weigh only the greater elements for or against...
...Sophomore who thus finds a university career not worth continuing, it would be well to consider carefully both sides of the question. His older friends, now in business, will tell him what he has heard countless times, namely, "to stick!" This brings only a yawn from the tired college man. For the student feels that his case is different. He is young in years and, because he is young knows everything. If he disregards this advice, realization must come sooner or later that he is a quitter. He entered college for the fundamental purpose of getting a degree...
This competition will give candidates the chance to become better acquainted with business methods and will afford association with older business men. No previous experience is necessary to compete successfully and those who do will have a chance to become assistant business manager next year...