Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of special low rates for this type of service with speedy delivery both at the college and at the student's home has made this service a very popular one with college men and women...
...analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained by Henry Adams, the Porcellian Club, or Samuel Eliot Morison's history. It is applied to the student so absorbed in his bio-chemistry that he cannot look at anyone and to the Freshmen too frightened for words, as well as to the Andover man who finds himself a cozy corner in Mt. Auburn Street and sleeps four years...
Academically, it is healthy that the student attack learning in an independent fashion. If indifference means no more than this, who can object? But if the criticism voiced recently by a Harvard lecturer is true--that indifference means aloofness to social progress (a better phrase than conservatism), it is time to sit up and redefine the slogan. This lecturer, Mr. Rollo Brown, claims that "it is no more to be expected that Harvard will kick free of her restraints and lead off boldly in behalf of any economic democracy that would elevate large numbers of submerged individual men to opportunities...
...driver of the express trucks will, in many cases, call for the laundry at the student's room and when the home-done laundry package is returned by express, the driver delivers it without extra charge...
Last week, 36 student seamen, first batch of more than 2,400 expected to enroll within a year, were ferried out to tiny, shuttle-shaped Hoffman Island in lower New York Bay for the first session of the new Merchant Marine Training School. Superintendent was smiling Lieut. Commander George Evans McCabe of the U. S. Coast Guard, an energetic expert in seacraft who will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training...