Word: coming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that was less than a year ago. Today they are relatively in a stronger position than ever before. Not only have men who served with the colors come back to them; they have attracted thousands of boys who never had thought of going to college, but whose eyes were opened by the things colleges and college men did in that great struggle...
...influence is the largest of any institution of learning in this country. Indeed, it probably wields more influence over more men and women than any other university in the world, because its announced registration of 16,000 does not begin to tell the whole story. Thousands of other persons come under the Columbia spell through the medium of extension courses and lectures given in all parts of Greater New York...
...competitive work required consists mainly in securing subscriptions and advertisements, with general business efficiency as a recognized factor. Men in this competition not only come in intimate contact with undergraduate life, but gain a large amount of practical experience from their business relations with firms in Boston, New York and other cities. Men elected business editors compete in their Junior year for the position of business manager...
...hearty support accorded to the 1923 basketball team is an evidence that interest in this sport has revived. Its organization among Freshmen is but a step in the direction of establishing it as a Varsity sport. The formation of class teams should come next. That such action would be favored is shown by the number of men who played last year on the Randolph courts. Without the incentive of a schedule or regular practice, there were always enough players on hand to form two teams; at times as many as four or five...
...college men become a separate caste, alienated from the experiences and aspirations, and estranged in sympathy and understanding from the burdens and sorrows of the great masses of men. There is no danger of such alienation springing from absorption in learning or in scholastic interests. The danger will come, if at all, in viewing a college course exclusively as the surest way to material success and personal gain...