Word: bred
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...life in Cambridge into social groups according to their money, and is a dominant factor toward preserving those groups. That is un-American, and it is against, the best university spirit. There is constantly at work in the mind of nearly every undergraduate a more or less definite desire, bred in the course of his general intellectual development, to become more catholic in his sympathies and thought. It is part of his natural growth and a university should help him in it; if it fails to help him fully in that then perhaps it would have been better...
...thirteenth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association will be held in the New Lecture Hall on Saturday morning, March 5, at 10 o'clock. The topic for discussion will be, "The Scope and Aims of the Professional Training of College-bred Teachers." Papers will be read by Arthur O. Norton '98, F. C. Lewis '97, director of the Graduates School of Pedagogy, Dartmouth, and George H. Locke, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Chicago. The general discussion following the papers will be lead by Professor P. H. Hanus...
Keeping to the old custom of the paper, the first number of the Monthly for the current academic year begins with a piece from one of the officers of the University, a discussion by Professor Hanus of "The Study of Education and the Professional Training of College Bred Teachers." Then follow, as usual, various articles, both prose and verse, contributed by students...
...voters are registered in the different universities and colleges as graduate or undergraduate students, yet it is an undoubted and regrettable fact, that a considerable proportion of the New York college graduates never exercise the suffrage, that most precious and least irksome of civic functions. To persuade these college-bred citizens to register and vote; to make plain to them the magnitude of the issue and the value of the individual; to supply them with all necessary information about the election law and the forms to be observed by voters: this is the first and foremost object of our committee...
...article entitled "Emerson's Centenary," argues strongly for the celebration by the University of May 25, 1903, the 160th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This day should be devoted, he says, not merely for the sake of reminding the public and ourselves that Emerson was Harvard bred and closely allied with Harvard throughout his life, but also for the sake of holding up to the present generation his unique example...