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...held, in 2 Weld. Mr. Horace E. Scudder spoke about books and book-publishing. He said that many men have a distinct desire to enter literature, but at the same time do not feel enough confidence in their abilities to permit a definite choice of letters as a life-work. At the same time their love of books is so strong that they cannot tear themselves away from them. In a publishing-house, run on the large scale of many at the present time, a variety of openings is offered to just such men as these. If the applicant...
...political science, philosophy and the like, are the opportunities offered by the various student papers here - opportunities which are equalled only by those at Yale. Therefore it is not strange that many of our graduates - a larger percentage than from any other college - have chosen journalism as their life-work. Of the one hundred and forty-three gentlemen who have been connected with the "Advocate" during the twenty years of its existence, ten have entered journalism as their chosen profession, but besides these, fifty-nine are lawyers and over eighty per cent. of these have been connected with the press...
...Sever 11, instead of Sanders Theatre, when a popular lecturer has been engaged to address the students on a theme of absorbing interest, was shamefully demonstrated Tuesday evening. Hundreds who went there, tormented, perhaps, by doubts and difficulties in the attempt to solve the great problem of what their life-work should be, thirsting for the light with which the lecturer's words flooded the subject and which would have aided them in the task of solution, were unable to gain admittance...
...limited manner. There is a lamentable ignorance among even Harvard's graduates concerning this their first one. I am at a loss to give extracts of my paper, for it is in itself a synoptical biography of the man, being not only his history, but an account of his life-work, his contentions and strange experiences, his death, etc., and all along, running through the statement, is an analysis of his nature, etc,. The paper was prepared, not for reading at the society's rooms, but for publication in a small volume, to which would be added a like biography...
...life-work 's in our keeping...