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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduates' Day has an equally strong appeal to all alumni, a large and representative gathering is expected on Saturday. Harvard men in the graduate schools should attend because, while they are still intimately connected with the University, they have a wider and more mature viewpoint then men in the College and consequently are in a position to take an active part in the discussion. It is to them as well as to the older graduates that Harvard looks for council and advice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATES' DAY | 5/19/1921 | See Source »

...daily lives are spent in various active pursuits which perhaps take all their days and fill their minds with one subject so that their horizons are limited. If any public question arises in the town men are apt to turn to the lawyer as a person of trained mind, wider view and better able than most men to control his time. Therefore he finds a place on the local committees, in clubs, churches and other organizations. He is chosen to town office or is sent to the legislature or to Congress, or he is called to some executive position...

Author: By Moorfield STOREY ., (SPECIAL ARTICLE FOR THE CRIMSON) | Title: SHOWS ADVANTAGES OF LAW AS A PROFESSION | 5/16/1921 | See Source »

...Ballou of Washington, D. C., C. R. Reed of Akron, and H. S. Gruver of Worcester, are, for example, Harvard graduates. Positions of the sort they hold now command salaries as high as $10,000. Administrative positions in states are not quite so well paid, but sometimes offer a wider field of work. There are Harvard graduates in the State Departments of Education of Massachusetts, West Virginia, Alabama, and other states. Education administration may safely be said to offer a career as well established, as adequately rewarded, and as constructive as any profession which depends fundamentally on public support...

Author: By Henry WYMAN Holmes, | Title: DEAN HOLMES TELLS OF WIDE SCOPE OF GRADUATE SCHOOL | 3/26/1921 | See Source »

...prominent Americans in New York to discuss the ways and means of bringing an association into being of these American college students who are interested in social, political, and international questions, and who have felt the need for a central student association which should promote among undergraduates a wider interest in the problems of national and world citizenship. They have felt the need for a central association which should furnish speakers to the college groups, organize student conventions, and in all possible ways build a community of the mind, whose citizenship should be the socially-conscious college students of America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERAL CLUBS TO GATHER | 3/4/1921 | See Source »

...Union, they might find that attendance at such a group, say three or more times a week, bad much to offer. Thus many friends whose social activities are confined to widely-separated clubs, but who are yet more than ordinarily congenial, would be brought together, at stated times; a wider and more intimate acquaintance among one's classmates would certainly result. If the old practice, with this adaptation to present conditions, can be restored so that undergraduates get as much out of it as alumni claim they, did. It should prove a decidedly worth-while experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CLUB TABLES" | 1/27/1921 | See Source »

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