Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think we should explain things," interrupted the Southerner. "When a man gives too brief an answer, get out the text book and copy right out what it says on the point...
...most striking aspect of the United States as I have found it, is the architecture," he went on, in answer to the reporter's query. "I tis really awe-inspiring. I can readily perceive a re- lationship between ancient. Nineveh and the towering cities here. At any moment I fancy that I may see some city dwellers from ancient Babylon appear in the tall buildings...
...writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called "the dumbing influence of athletics", is struck down with an adding machine and his body run over by the juggernaut of the intelligence quotient. He cannot answer his assailants: they themselves have said that his weapons are duller than standard fighting gear. One learns to accept all things in time; it remains painful, however, to picture the Carnegie Foundation clipping from behind...
...great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish, saw the America cross the line. "Who is second," she asked. "There is no second," was the answer. The U. S. invader won by hours...
...change as this, has to do with getting away from the old "keeping-school" theory of education and with substituting for it, within reasonable bounds, individual self-development. The American college is constantly struggling with the problem of how to get the mass of its students interested. The answer is to put them "on their own." The student that is allowed to choose a special topic that interests him, and to work it out for himself under advice, is bound to become interested. Education then become what the word itself means. Yale Alumni Weekly