Word: attained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of such positions that a man may hold, we are not raising the standard to the highest possible level in such a way that the largest number may derive the most benefit. We are lowering the standard to a level that will enable men of mediocre ability to attain these positions without undue effort on their part and we are removing to a very large extent the stimulus of intense competition upon which all achievement must in the last analysis, be based. Once remove the idea of competition from your undergraduate activities and the sooner you remove the activities...
...more false that universities have any such raison d'etre. Instructors who think so mistake the proper means of teaching us "how to think and to find out things for themselves." To paraphrase Dr. Lake further: "it is not how much we are taught, but rather how readily we attain the faculty for learning," which makes for success in life. We will never "learn how to teach ourselves by using books properly and by exploiting our teachers to the best advantage" if we seek in "peptonised information" for the "detailed facts which insure success in life." Education has been defined...
...coveted Phi Beta Kappa trophy given each year by the University chapter to the preparatory school whose graduates make the best record in the entrance examinations, goes this year to the Country Day School for Boys, of West Newton. The award is based on the number of boys who attain the honor list in proportion to the number admitted. Those on this list, twenty-nine in number, reached an average grade of work in all their examinations worthy of honorable mention...
...Harvard University to make himself physically fit,--to do that is a duty encumbrant upon every man who desires to serve his country most efficiently. It is the physical development of the men in general that is wanted,--not the development of a limited number of supermen, who can attain their superiority only at the expense of their work in the military units...
...Military Science 1 men qualified as expert riflemen and only one man in Military Science 2, J. Sise '21, with a total of 172, was able to attain that grade. Nine members of the Battalion were classed as sharpshooters, of whom five were from M Company, J. S. Baker '19 and S. S. Jordan '21 with 156, I. Rosenfield '18 with 155, D. T. W. McCord '21 with 148, and W. G. Swigert '20 with 145. The first two of the above were at the head of the elementary course men at the range last week...