Word: attainable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...famous scholars and professors. The crux of the question is this: the college man is just about in his prime physically and can performs athletic feats as well as they can be done; the undergraduate scholar, on the contrary, is just beginning to ripen intellectually and does not attain his full mental development until many years after graduation. Hence undergraduates and the public are not interested in puerile performances, which represent only training for higher things, whereas they are intensely interested, in athletic performances that cannot be bettered...
...incapable being. Furthermore, it is claimed that the undergraduate scholars work solely for grades and that they are not truly interested in scholarly endeavor. Such a contention is not true. Of course marks stand as an index of proficiency in scholarship, and naturally if a man is striving to attain a high standard, he will ipso facto receive high grades. But the high grades are not the sole aim and object of his work. When a candidate for a paper or, an athletic team reports, he is not prompted by any feeling of altruism...
Tonight the second University football team disbands for the season. The men of the second squad have always a large share in the successful development of the University team and only by then efficiency can the first team attain its best form. They are hard workers who play mainly for love of the game and for the take of assisting the cause of University football. For their work they receive little glory or reward. A large amount of credit in due to the second team for its efforts in the past season and the CRIMSON takes this opportunity on behalf...
...Senior" writes with genuine and convincing fervor of the opportunities for service that Phillips Brooks House offers, incidentally showing one of the advantages of the city college over the country college. It is to be regretted that in his fervor his rhetoric and coherence suffer, and he fails to attain the standard of the Illustrated, as set forth by Mr. Hamlin in the "Need of Attachment," "the ability to think clearly, to write very decently, and to work efficiently enough not to need to hustle." It is good (and somehow amusing) to know that "atheists, agnostics, or others taking philosophy...
...find great difficulty in adapting themselves to college methods of study. It overlooks the consideration that elementary courses offer quite as much difficulty to the less mature and inexperienced Freshman as the more advanced courses offer to the upper classman. Yet the present system argues than the Freshman must attain a higher standard of work than the upper classman in order to be ranked with them in the first or second group...