Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those of them who have had an office training introduce an important element into the school, because their practical experience has given them a facility in drawing which some of the regular students do not attain in the earlier years of their work in the school; and the older special students are likely to be serious students and hard workers. The standards of the school, however, are set for the regular student with his previous college training...
Calling attention to the tremendous increase in size of the undergraduate business schools of the United States during the past two years, and to the competition to which these schools are subjecting the older four-year liberal arts course, Dean Wallace Brett Donham '99, of the Graduate School of Business Administration, says in his annual report, made public today, that "the future integrity of the old-fashioned college courses depends to an extent little realized" upon graduate school of business, such as that at the University...
...innovation in the Union next year which will be awaited with interest is the addition to its regular dining facilities of the old-fashioned type of "club table." This will mark the revival of a custom previously prevalent at Harvard, now many years suspended, which older graduates review with genuine pleasure and appreciation...
...have a utilitarian purpose, namely, they help to interest in the colleges that they represent, young lads who may be prospective undergraduates, or young girls who may have some weight in determining the choice of college for those lads. Such interest is created by the club's depicting the older musical side of college life. It is not to be denied that such a concert as the Harvard Glee Club is now giving might cause the ordinary schoolboy to flee in utter boredom. Moreover, even his sister might not be intrigued by such a serious program, unless her musical...
...establishment of the "New Plan" entrance examinations five years ago. Harvard took the lead in assisting deserving students who had not been specially prepared to enter one of the older Eastern universities; Yale followed shortly after, and, with the establishment of the new "Board of Admissions," is now planning to make further progress in this direction. There is no doubt that the comprehensive examinations have done a great deal to assist the well-prepared high school student to gain admittance, but the bugbear of "flunking in one" frightens many desirable students away to the state universities. The result, unfortunate...