Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore the best collegiate education is the best business training today. Callisthenes need not worry about an incentive to enter the industrial world. Wealth holds more lure for most men than a captain's bars or a minister's gown. To stress business in education would be most inadvisable. American, today presents a most effective answer to the society which desires to revolve about an industrial axis...
...before he came here, and the life which he will lead after he graduates, and to select a career in which he may be successful and content. In order to do that somewhat effectively, James Mack Swigert '30. Donald Freeman Brown '30, and I, have collected a wealth of information about what men do, how they do it, and how they reached the positions in which they do it. We have also a small, well-selected library of books about a great variety of occupations. In addition, we have established contacts with nearly 1000 successful people living near Boston...
...would respectfully invite your attention to the very strong feeling which exists in many quarters against the Eton College Beagles. . . . We do most strongly submit that Eton boys, with all the interests of the river and the playing-fields and the chance of practically every recreation which wealth and association afford, should resolve no longer to seek pleasure in hunting timid hares to death, but if cross-country exercise is still desired, should adopt the drag hunt, as practiced for years by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge as well as by several of the military staff, and other colleges...
...There is a mass of information before us as to the general prevalence of drinking in homes, clubs, hotels; of drinking parties given and attended by persons of high standing and respectability; of drinking in connection with public dinners and conventions. . . . Taking the country as a whole people of wealth, business men and professional men and their families and perhaps the higher paid working men are drinking in large numbers in quite frank disregard of the declared policy of national prohibition...
Announcement of the annual appropriation of the General Education Board for Studies of the Humanities provides opportunity to restate again the advantages of organized patronage of the arts and sciences. A division of the Rockefeller Foundation, this General Education Board is a good example of the intelligent direction of wealth. It is on a basis of such intelligent direction of power that civilization preserves itself...