Word: adapting
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...teach the people to adapt themselves to new conditions...
...important questions present themselves for solution. First of all, is the ordinary undergraduate capable of handing such freedom, and secondly, what changes should be made in secondary school theories to adapt themselves to such an innovation? There is undoubtedly a large portion of the student body who will not shoulder their new burdens. Those men who are at College solely to have a good time will continue to squander away the year from an educational standpoint and will rely even more strongly on tutoring schools before the mid-year and final examinations. If this group falls by the wayside, however...
...most practical permanent solution of the problem would be achieved by the establishment of a school of Public Service as a graduate unit of the University. With the background of a general undergraduate education, the student in such a school would rapidly adapt his theoretical knowledge to the practical problems of American government. The chief value of the school would arise from its ability to secure temporary positions for its undergraduates and to give its graduates a firm start toward a public career...
...trend is clearly toward the education of lawyers in the tradition of the Continent by adopting in some measure the curricula of its law schools which are broad enough to train sociologists and political scientists as well as lawyers. In thus seeking to adapt its instruction to the necessities of the age, the Yale Law School evidences a flexibility of program which should aid its development in the future. It is a process the parent institution in Cambridge might do well to watch...
...must first be educated, so that he knows the evils of liquor, and how to adapt himself to them. And most assuredly the way to teach him is not, when he is most eager to learn, to treat him like a small child, who is not yet old enough to drink...