Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-known charge of overemphasis on outside activities Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, adds the more serious charge of collegiate insincerity. Schools and colleges, he says, pretend to do more than they can really accomplish, and hence the real indictment against them is their insincerity...
...College athletics? I can see no gain from them. I believe in exercise, and I think that at some future date bodily exercise will be so conducted as to improve the athlete's mental state. Certainly it does not accomplish that...
...study of origins, however, will not cure the evil; it must be met by stricter classification of schools into technical and cultural, and by increased financial support. The abject resignation of Dr. Kallen and others will accomplish nothing...
...through the life of an individual in the life of society as a whole - can any business managership or other such goals so much sought do other than tend to lead one into narrowness from the lack of thought gives such ends as truth. Cannot sports for sports sake accomplish more than sports for the many other motives pressing them on? And if sports or any other outside activity were to be placed on such a level as to dominate great over-emphasis, should not greater "ewards for all, both mentally and physically, socially and morally be forth-coming...
...with the notion that his highest level of intelligence has already been reached. But a little thought dispells this uncomfortable feeling. In the first place, the rare thing is not to possess intelligence, but to utilize it. Probably no one will ever know how much the "normal" individual could accomplish, if means were found to extract and utilize all his thinking powers. Since no one does know everyone secretly prides himself that (except in particulars) he "has as good a head as the next...