Word: absorbate
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...much that the student resists facts and details. He will absorb trusts and labor unions, municipal government and direct primaries, the poems of Matthew Arnold, and James's theory of the emotions. There is no unkindliness of his mind towards fairly concrete material. What he is more or less impervious to is points-of-view, interpretations. He seems to lack philosophy. The college has to let too many undergraduates pass out into professional and business life, not only without the germ of a philosophy, but without any desire for an interpretative clue through the maze. In this respect the American...
...Harvard be Non-Sectarian"? and though he sucseeds in proving the expected answer, his statements are not always clear. It is a stimulating subject calling for broad treatment. The undergraduate as spoken of by Mr. Skinner is perhaps too sensitive and narrow-minded, and the sooner he can absorb all sorts of theories of life and religion, the better...
...unintelligent methods of study is doubtless enormous. The average undergraduate takes his work as doses of bitter medicine to be swallowed indiscriminately at more or less frequent intervals. Given a book, he dully reads the sentences, exercising on selection, but expecting that in some mysterious way he will absorb knowledge by the mere conning of the words. At a lecture he does not know how to condense points made into intelligible, concise statements suitable for notes. If the lecturer is not one who carefully labels all his topics and introduces them with "first, secondly, thirdly, etc.", the student is often...
...must be conquered for the expanding population." Modern commercialism, with its intricate system of ownerships sales, and general business transactions would never permit the crudities of confiscation and destruction. Matters of interest and insurance are far too interwoven for that. Furthermore, experience has shown that one nation can not absorb the people of another, and so the plan of finding a New Germany, or a New France, is impossible. When the whole matter is boiled down to essentials, it is seen that the real reason for international armament lies in each country's fear of the other's aggression...
Laying down the rule that "the average loudness of a sound in a room is proportional inversely to the absorbing power of the material in the room," Dean Sabine has made careful experiments to determine the absorption value of the common forms of construction used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre...