Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred thousand volumes, chiefly monographs and bound periodicals, provide an excellent working library for the student of present-day business or the investigator into business history. For the use of the former, provision is made--especially in the Baker Room of the Library--for the acquisition of the better sources of current information on finance, commodity movement, and the like, whether such material be of governmental or private origin. The Library believes its primary obligation that of creating and maintaining this assembly of reference data on contemporary business activity...
Happy Folks. Peter Pan's happy light flitted about Columbia's Teachers' College. Professor Goodwin Barbour Watson there trapped it under the lattice bushel of his studies. "In general." said he, "the happy student is likely to be a healthy, popular, married man who thinks that he can tell a joke well, lead a discussion, act in a play, talk on sex, or lead a group. . . . He has had a harmonious home, enjoys his job, prefers adventure to peace, responsibility to direction. Not essential to happiness are intelligence, race, nationality, self-support, religious participation, ability in algebra, cleverness in writing...
...Colony. In New Haven's Prospect Street, behind a high wall and adjoining the gardens of the learned community's Victorian moguls, is a monkey house. No uncouth student ever annoys the beasts for they are the wards of Robert Mearns Yerkes. He, who made a Harvard reputation studying the behavior of the dancing mouse,* has for the past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks...
...Chapel Hill, N. C., one Harry Meacham, college student, played bridge, had bad luck. Annoyed, he laid a gun on the table, declared: "I'm going to shoot the next person who deals me a sorry hand." When his turn came he dealt himself a Yarborough,* picked up his pistol, killed himself...
...lean-faced Chicago University student and a round-faced Stanford one stepped to tennis fame at Brookline, Mass. They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles...