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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Here and there one hears the mischievous suggestion that the administration costs of the Red Cross absorb about 70 percent of these contributions. This is a downright lie. Not one penny of the money contributed to war relief will be deducted for administration expenses. These expenses are very small, as a matter of fact, because 90 percent of the Red Cross workers give their services absolutely without charge, and the small necessary expenses are more than covered by the membership dues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRIVE WELL UNDER WAY | 5/21/1918 | See Source »

...elective system goes too far when it not only allows choice among courses but between working and not working, after the course has been chosen. If students refuse to absorb culture when it is placed temptingly before them, it is still possible to require it for the passing mark, and thus to appeal to self-interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELF-INTEREST AND SNAPS. | 10/14/1915 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Comment | 10/5/1915 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Rudolph ALTROCCHI ., | Title: Praise for June Monthly | 6/15/1915 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON STUDYING. | 3/2/1915 | See Source »

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