Word: straus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article entitled "Just What is a College Education Worth?' published in an American magazine, Percy S. Straus '97 brings up anew the question of the value of college-bred men in business. Mr. Straus, who is Chairman of the Committee on Employment of the Harvard Club of New York City, tells a significant story of a brilliant college graduate who was offered a position involving statistical work in a large plant. Once at work, "Dean, the graduate in question, showed a flash of real brilliancy in analyzing the operations of two departments. The unfortunate factor was that in getting...
...name mentioned in this incident is fictitious, but the occurrence is a true one, Mr. Straus does not contend--nor does anyone else--that it is typical of college men in general. The "superior" type is, fortunately, becoming relatively scarce. An examination of the names of men of achievement appearing in "Who's Who" shows that only one uneducated child in one hundred and fifty thousand is able to accomplish anything that entitles him to honorable mention in the progress of his state; that children with common-school education win out four times as often; that a high school diploma...
...recent meeting of the University Instrumental Club the following new members were elected: George Wright Howe 21, of Cambridge; Roger Cushing Rouse '20, of St. Louis, Mo.; William Wallace Rowe '20, of Cincinnati, O.; Davin Collins Seager '20, of Brighton; Isador Straus, 2nd, '21, of New York City; Charles Henry Warner, Jr., '21 of Fall River...
...class--E. L. Sutcliffe lost to Straus of M. I. T. on a fall...
During the supper the Smith Halls Orchestra, under the leadership of I. Straus '21, will play in the Common Room for informal dancing for those who wish to take part, but the dance of the evening will not begin until after the interdormitory song contest which begins...