Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registration every student was afforded opportunity to volunteer for social service work. Many men ignored this; others shunted the burden less gracefully after once volunteering. It has been impossible thus far to reach all the volunteers but as the number gradually decreases it becomes more and more evident that the percentage of real workers will be far too low. A re-canvassing of all students may become necessary but it would be much more fitting if Harvard's quota were genuinely volunteer and not begged...
Cigar. At Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., Prof. Miller D. Steever, bet a "good cigar" that Roland S. Finley, senior student, could not get a job within 24 hours because "it was hard even for a man willing to work to get a job." This was to prove that unemployment was widespread in the U. S., "a serious indictment of our social organization...
...Student Finley went anonymously to Manhattan; failed twice; on the third application got work making radio loudspeakers at 37 cents an hour. For proof he took his time card back to Lafayette. Thereby he forfeited his pay, but won Professor Steever's "good cigar...
With the adoption of a "bogie" score, which gives the rating a student should attain in his college work upon the basis of his showing in his entrance examination, his school record, and the psychological test given at the beginning of freshman year, the scholastic attainments of the undergraduates are showing a marked improvement, it was announced today by President John Grier Hibben in his annual report to the Princeton Board of Trustees...
...When a student falls below his "bogie" the university notifies the student's parents, and the dean of the Faculty warns the student. New York Times...