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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union, the Graduates' Magazine discusses the choice of a profession in an article by Dr. A. B. Emmons 2d., '98, "How Medical School Graduates Fare." Dr. Emmons points out the desirability of first of all knowing for what one has an aptitude and a liking. He suggests that a young doctor work at first with older men before assuming complete responsibility, and that the element of team work play a more prominent part in the profession...
...last, for he seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle, the book is also valuable. He deals with the trials and tribulations of the various peoples in a very sane and sympathetic manner. The book contains a number of illustrations, most of which show interesting documents collected by the author...
...order that the foreign operatives of the company may be young men of business ability the management has established a training school in New York for its candidates for posts in Asia and the Levant. Men from the University who apply must be between the ages of 21 and 28. Applicants under 21 require responsibility on the part of the company which the latter has found impossible to assume. Older than 28, the applicants seem to grow dissatisfied to be in the same class with younger men. The term of the school is from three to four months. It meets...
...natural and proper that a young man of the twentieth century, in mapping out his college course, should turn towards subjects that offer new outlooks and new possibilities of investigation, not realized by preceding generations. The apparent remoteness of Greek and Roman civilization and the long accumulation of important criticism upon ancient art and literature have obscured the indubitable fact that the Classics present such opportunities in the same degree as Economics or Science...
...benefits to be derived from the Classics acquire a new importance in the face of present conditions. Never was there a time when English style needed so sorely the influence of the carefully wrought sentences of Athens and Rome. Never was there a time when young men needed so sorely a training in that mental concentration and in those orderly ways of thought which are bred by the reading of highly inflected languages. But it is paradoxical to champion the Classics on the ground of their practical advantages. Their chief value cannot be measured by materialistic standards. Since they form...