Word: basic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps was established at Cornell early this year. This provides for the institution of an advanced course in military training which is elective, but which once selected becomes a prerequisite towards graduation. The course continues the work of the basic course taken by freshmen and sophomores, but lays special stress on practical field problems, minor tactics, map manoeuvers and the elements of military and international...
Polish is an essential to the musical comedy gem and it can come only as the result of constant cutting, burnishing and reburnishing. This form of polish is the chief lack of "The Love Mill" as we see it in its youthful newness. The basic qualities of musical glitter and comedy brilliance are present, but to bring them out really successfully a process of careful smoothing and refining must be gone through. There is here also the sincere attempt on the part of the producer to give more than just the average "show." Cast, costumes and scenery reflect much care...
Barrett Wendell's retirement from active teaching will be regretted by many more than the students who have actually come under his instruction at Harvard. Few educators have made a greater impression as up-to-date thinkers. Professor Wendell's basic belief is that the English language is a living and growing organism. It is a belief perfunctorily subscribed to by all teachers of language and consistently lived...
Isolated bits of knowledge constitute our fuel for thought, but the product of our thinking capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which...
...must take his stand definitely upon the large questions of the day. How many of us try to satisfy this aim by pondering a few minutes over admission to the Union or the Smoker question? What we need to do is to abstract time for the study of basic principles. The college man never realizes how much spare time he has. Any Law School man will verify that. Why not use some of this spare time to create an individual and constructive idealism? On this firm basis only can we go out into the world and preserve for our University...