Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours to advise Freshmen on the choice of a field of concentration the Student Advisory Committee abandons a little used activity. The committee is able to make its real service to the first year men at the opening of College in the fall. Then the friendly counsel of an older student proves valuable both in academic and general matters of undergraduate life...
...present government of Italy. The idea of plebiscites is not new, but rather an integral part of dictatorial government. It was thus used by Napoleon III who in more than one way reminds one of the present rulers of Italy in spite of their enthusiasm for the older Bonaparte. What is a little novel in these recent Italian elections is the use of 'professions' and 'trades', so-called 'corporations' as the units or precincts, thus substituting a functional for a regional division of the electorate for purposes of what is termed more 'organic' representation...
...more sound statements made by Harvard Club presidents in answer to the query of the Boston Transcript as to whether graduates favor the House Plan or not emphasizes the point that "possibly the older alumni are more in sympathy with the plan than recent graduates." The significance of this remark cannot be overlooked in a consideration of the graduate attitude toward the forthcoming experiment...
...House Plan is to go further than that, it would seem advisable to have the two types of residents sit elbow to elbow in the dining hall. Equally discordant is the idea of a separate commons for the instructors. While the older men might well have a small, auxiliary smoking room for their special use, to establish an individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance...
Married. Mary Meeker, Chicago socialite, daughter of Vice President Arthur Meeker of Armour & Co.; and Ambrose C. Cramer, architect, who was divorced two years ago on the ground of desertion by Mary Meeker's older sister, Grace; in Washington...