Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the 323 men who returned the cards sent out by Phillips Brooks House asking, among others, a question about what life work each man expected to take up, only 72 are undecided. Sixty-one plan to go into, the profession of law after they graduate, while second place in the figures is held by medicine, which attracts, at the present time, 45 from this group of the Freshman Class...
These two occupations seem to be by far the most popular. Third place is held, however, by teaching, a profession which is supposed to be on the decline. It is followed closely by engineering, with 30 candidates; but this figure is deceptive, as some of these men plan to undertake-civil engineering, others, mining engineering, and others, what not. The fifth of the most popular occupations is business, which will draw 27 from this group...
...taken by like institutions banded together through universities." He further stated that Harvard was one of three other universities working toward conserving "the values of the American college that once was, with all the magnificent values of the great modern university-college, in that it is experimenting with a plan through which students live in groups with scholars, but receive university classroom instruction...
...second time in as many years, water transportation will play a considerable part in bringing spectators to the Harvard-Yale game. The water taxi service of one marine company has already received reservations for its boats, and it will offer a complete service. The speedboats plan to receive their passengers on Fort Point channel, dash up into the Charles River Basin, and land the rooters right on the Stadium grounds...
...Power was its own money center, the second was probably Switzerland. And to have put that hurdle behind them was a wise act of the bankers, for their proposals contain more than enough controversial materials and cause for dissension as they go into "the second reading" of the Young Plan at the Hague...