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...that almost one-fourth of college graduates go into business, and the calling is second only to teaching in popularity, constant attention to such accusations is imperative. Harvard offers laboratories for the use of future scientists; and libraries for the benefit of future teachers and scholars. Many a weighty problem arises upon which the future reformer may try his wits. For the journalist of the future there are journals, and for the artist of the future there is art. But the proposition that seems to be ignored is that for the future business man there are opportunities for the exercise...
...more intellectual clubhouses might be made to rival in attractiveness the more social. why should one climb a tower to enjoy Phi Beta Kappa when he can luxuriate in the Varsity Club's happy proximity to mother earth? There is, further, the feeling that advertising will help solve the problem. The names of athletes are club house hold words; cannot something be achieved by posting the names of students with honor grades? The faculty also comes in for criticism, especially the "young and generally incompetent" assistants. The professors, it is more than hinted, might do better than give lectures which...
...University officers who are assisting many men to secure work, there still remain certain phases of a working students life which, according to Professor Cavanaugh of Cornell, should be carefully considered. One of these phases touches the social side of college life, which he thinks need cause no serious problem, except in colleges where large dormitory space is lacking. Besides dormitories, Harvard is equipped with the Union which offers every opportunity to working students to drop now and then into congenial company. With professor Cavanaugh we ridicule the idea of a great social barrier; the proof of its non-existence...
Miss McFadden, by placing her story in her native heath, has presented characters that are familiar to her. It is said she has not undertaken to present in "The Child" a sociological problem as she did in her earlier play, but has endeavored to set forth human emotions in a dramatic and convincing style...
...experiment will be watched with no little care for there are two or three important points involved. The question of amateurism and professionalism is bound to arise as well as the problem of commercialism. To intercollegiate athletes who are accustomed to look upon these matters as pastimes primarily this elaborate system of public athletic education will perhaps seem a little overdone. The relation between the movements which seems to be very popular, and the remarkable vigor now being displayed by France in various other lines--philosophy and international politics for example--may not be overlooked...