Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Closely related to this type is the student who by temperament and ambition is a scholar, and for whom the most effective college course is the one which gives him the opportunity to go far toward the bottom of some field of scholarly interest...
...first place there is the student who is looking forward to a professional school, and who is pointing his entire college work toward a broad and comprehensive preparation for a life of professional usefulness...
...average undergraduate reader, the book will be interesting, since it will tell him what his sisters and cousins and, perhaps, aunts, in women's colleges, are thinking and saying about the things which trouble or amuse him most. To the serious-minded student who is bothered in turn about the health of the American undergraduate body, the book may be valuable, although the material is too fragmentary and heterogeneous to be fitted readily into a thesis mould. About all it proves, as we see it, is that the men and women of Ascalon are not like those of Gath
...solution of the problem of the first two collegiate years hinges upon the organization of a program permitting the student to make a wide survey of various fields of intellectual interests. In order that he may determine the direction which he should finally take." The New York Times...
...footballer became a law student and, at $6 per week, court reporter for his half-brother's (Charles Phelps Taft's*) newspaper, the Cincinnati Times. Another publisher paid $25 per week to alienate his services. He shared first honors in his class at law school, practiced with his father and got on quickly-assistant prosecuting attorney, judge of the Superior Court. He was only 33 when President Harrison made him Solicitor-General...