Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mosquito was Fidel La Barba, one time flyweight (112 lb. or under) champion of the world. A student at Stanford, he wants to go into real estate business. Among books he has read and liked are the Outline of History by H. G. Wells, Round Up by Ring Lardner. Among maga-zines he likes and reads is Variety...
...following article discussing the Student Council Committee report on vocational training was written specially for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '16, Secretary for Student Employment...
...faced squarely. I believe that vocational information is of much greater value than vocational guidance. As I have tried to suggest in the articles I have written for the CRIMSON during the past months, the Vocational Counsellor should indicate the essential features of various businesses so that the student would be either attracted or repelled by the picture thus presented. If the student is interested, he will probably investigate the matter further; if repelled, he can cross off one branch of business from his list and devote his attention to those which remain. As Douglas Fryer points...
...With this key to his administration one can follow Harvard's progress since then to the institution that it is today. Socially he has worked during these ten years towards an all-around undergraduate life which began with good conditions for the Freshmen, carried through the athletic and other student interests, and came to a climax in the House Plan, which Edward S. Harkness, '97, has just made possible. In scholarship at Harvard President Lowell has held clear ideas, first to make the Harvard Bachelor's degree stand for high grade of work, and secondly to awaken student interest...
Radcliffe profited greatly from Dean Briggs's administration, as it had profited from Mrs. Agassiz's services. Dean Briggs's permanent values to the college were also clearly marked. He fused a loose student sentiment into great loyalty: he found ways to enlarge the curriculum, and he had a large share in bringing Radcliffe's resources to a little more than $4,000,000 in 1923. Under his guidance Radcliffe adhered to the policy of counting only Harvard courses toward the A.B. degree, and it shared in Harvard's decision to preserve certain courses as graduate in character...