Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competitions such as that announced in today's CRIMSON are the soil for the seeds from which grow that hybrid individual known as the Big Man. Every year there is a group of undergraduates who visualize a far off goal of supremacy where they can bask in the glow of multitudinous activities. All forms of extra-curricular work, among them the CRIMSON, have the misfortune to be included among the rungs of the ladder that leads to this Nirvana. And so this feeling grows in proportion to the number of activities that are available, and the most unfortunate part...
...habits before he was previously convicted, his attitude toward his family in the past, whether he lives in a favorable neighborhood, how he acted under parole and on his own, how he spends his leisure, and so forth. By these findings, he may be listed in a group which will show with some accuracy the probability as to the life he will lead in the future...
...undergraduate group, the lads in the College, which typifies Harvard, to put it tritely. The Harvard undergraduate has an air about him; some call it indifference, and some term it affectation, but at all events it is not empty-headedness...
Next came "Banking, Group and Branch," a 10,000-word survey, without illustrations, of the prime contemporary problem in U. S. finance. To Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, this article had been submitted before publication. Of it, beneath the Treasury's seal, he had written: ". . . interesting and comprehensive. . . . It is appropriate that the first issue of this new magazine of business should devote so much space to a study of this important question...
...cinema actress, in its brevity, its monetary aspect, its exaggerations. Her first painting, a landscape done with her finger nails and bits of cotton, was immediately acquired by the Queen of Norway. The queer Perdriat legend promptly began, a legend fostered by that somewhat anonymous and powerful group, "her friends," who apparently had been already convinced of her genius and were waiting only for the opportunity to lavish praises on its fruits...