Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press may breed content or contempt. At times your special brand seems to approach the latter...
Harvard has no back who can compare with Slagle, brilliant Tiger carrier who led the Nassau attack in the Stadium last year. Crosby, scrappy Crimson Sophomore, is the nearest approach to Slagle in the Crimson backfield: each is a shifty runner and each weighs 158 pounds. Slagle, however, is a fine forward, passer, and Captain Cheek is met by a worthy rival in this feature of the game...
...reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind these barricades and begin to approach things in terms of emotion...
...most common mistakes of a professor are those of giving his own views on controversial questions instead of presenting the problem as a detached problem, and in allowing the discussion to wander from the approach of the topic to the heart of his course, out into generalities. Of course, the professor will not be able, and should not try, to conceal his own views, but he should expect his colleagues to confer with him when it appears that harm may come from classroom discussion...
...Presumably, students who are unable to make any technical advance in their subjects or to go any further than its general aspects as expounded in the standard courses will always be with us. And the tutor can be of very great service to such men if he tries to approach them not from the angle of their particular field but on the common ground of general culture. I fail to see why tutorial instruction should be confined within the limits of the field of concentration; after all, the tutor is a teacher of the student as a student...