Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flaming crimson into the more delicate mauve of solidarity. Like opera girls and Memorial Hall dining room, the old traditions are becoming passe, for now the carefree Lothario who whisks by in his shining roadster must give way to the more sedate touring car of the happily married student with the wife and little strangers. In the coeducational University of Washington, marriage among the undergraduates is even being promoted by the faculty on the grounds that those who have the responsibility of a wife get better grades...
...following article is the fifth of a series written for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '14, University Secretary for Student Employment, on the various fields of endeavor in business open to college graduates...
...that 'Five Men of Frankfort' is a poor book, but it is not, and perhaps does not strive to be a complete history of the great banking house which grew out of the little shop in the Frankfort Judengasse. For the average reader, neither a student of the period, nor one more than ordinarily interested in the history of the amazing growth to power of the House of Rothschild, for one who wishes to get some light on its development and influence, Mr. Ravage's book is well designed, and, so far as it goes, essentially correct...
That the situation of alumni manipulated football teams which the Cornell Sun has described and deplored is generally prevalent at the large American universities is incontestable. That the present state of affairs has tended to remove a line which twenty years ago existed between student spectator and student player is likewise certain. To cite merely one aspect of the change which has come about, the denial of the privilege to watch practice sessions and the consequent necessity of reading the papers to keep posted on the daily progress of the team, have resulted in a considerably diminished interest in team...
Whether the great majority of college football fans actually favor a reversion to old time football conditions remains a question. The Cornell Sun has answered it in the affirmative, but the fact that there has been no notice able decline in the student attendance at games during the past several seasons seems to indicate that the modern undergraduate is satisfied with the status quo. It should be remembered that against the impersonality and what can almost be called pseudo-professional spirit of the modern contest must be balanced the improvement in quality of the football which is witnessed, as well...