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...though he had entered a learned profession, provided he is equally devoted, industrious, abstinent and tenacious. Of the five departments, all of which lead to the top, the construction department gives a man an out-door life, the legal, on the whole is, perhaps, most congenial to the college-bred...
...Harvard is getting every year a larger percentage of the best class of students - those who come from long distances in search of culture; and this in spite of Yale's immense influence in partibus alienorum, due to the fact that she has educated the great bulk of Eastern-bred men in the West and in Middle States. Wherever one travels in the West he finds ten Yale men to one Harvard man. In New York the proportion must be two to one, and only a few years since it was much greater. Yet the metropolis, which in 1873 sent...
...College-bred bears" are advertised among the attractions of a show. There will be nothing nevel in the exhibition to people who are used to taking the last car for Cambridge. - Transcript...
...their profession. The number of men who intend to devote their lives to journalism is by no means small; there are no technical schools for journalistic training, such schools would indeed be impossible from the nature of the profession. But now when our newspapers are recruited largely from college bred men, it is no more than right that colleges should add all in their power to prepare men for their profession...
...short article appears in the February number of the magazine of American History, on "College Bred Presidents," by Pavey, Yale...