Word: sweatshirts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business world. As the problems of manufacture and distribution grow...
...must be invented. Dartmouth's problem--so says the New Student, a symposium of college opinions, concerns aesthetics. Mr. Percy Marks, who is still striving to live down "The Plastic Age", has broadcast his opinion to the effect that Dartmouth students have thrown off the shackles of the "sweatshirt period" only to sink into the toils of dilettantism. A Dartmouth undergraduate ably reputed Mr. Marks' aspersions and emphatically denied that students "walk about Hanover with tiger ljlies beween their teeth and green carnations pinned to their jackets. Once more the voluble Mr. Marks offers himself as a target for criticism...
...believe it soon will be if present tendencies continue. Unfortunately the plane from which it has to start is lower than most people know or like to think about. While it is true that the College has advanced far from the old corduroy- trouser-dirty-sweatshirt days much of the old indifference to matters not essentially material remains; and it is against this that The Arts is forced to contend. It is to the lasting credit of the few brave souls who have kept up the fight in the past few years, even though discouragingly outnumbered, that The Arts...