Word: working
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrivals came to snatch the technical training which would enable them to get good jobs as quickly as possible; others to make those contacts which are believed to be profitable in certain forms of business; others to postpone for four years the period of going to work; others to take part in the hurly-burly of athletics, fraternities, and other undergraduate activities which constitute college life; others, without any motive save that everybody else was doing...
...logically, be a student at an aviation school that at Harvard or Yale? In the end, he might decide that a college diploma is even more desirable than the pilot's license. If he did, he could then dismiss aviation from his mind, enter college, and settle down to work without any of the conflicts which now disturb...
...system now in vogue at most colleges trains average people to do useful and honorable work along standard lines. But it does not encourage individuality. It helps and encourages students to follow the broad cement roads to quick and apparent forms of success, but it does not guide them along the side roads and bypaths which often lead to great and unexpected discoveries...
...present he is in charge of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratory for cancer research at Bar Harbor, Me It was in view of his distinguished work in this field that he was appointed to fill the post of managing director...
...Little was on the Harvard Track Team in 1908, 1909, and 1910, where his work with the shot helped the University to win in 1910 over Yale. Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth. He was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa...