Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect the College immediately to reform. In default of that, it behooves every Harvard man, even at the expense of his marks, to do a little original thinking of his own about the problems which he must sooner or later face. REXFORD S. TUCKER...
...coming, for instance, and just as he got in range, perhaps 400 yards, and above and behind me in good position for him, I would try to turn sharply under him and after he passed above make a renversement and be behind him and under his tail. A machine cannot see another if it be directly below him, while the one below can easily watch the one above. Once behind the other fellow, you try to follow him in all his turns. When you try to make quick turns and don't get them just right the machine assumes...
...desire the improvement and advancement of our nation, "the progress of the group as a group," not imposing itself or its ideas on any smaller or weaker nations, the duty of unselfish service is incumbent upon us; we cannot avoid it, try how we will. Dematerializing men and men's motives seems to me the only way of insuring for America the efficient and progressive democracy which she neds so badly. I fail to see how our present system of education or that proposed by Mr. Lazarus are going to accomplish this. C. S. JOSLYN...
...spring, but, which on account of the abandonment of crew work were never put in the water are now being fitted up and rigged. One is a Ward sectional boat, which may not be used this season unless it is found, contrary to present plans, that the Yale shells cannot be satisfactory re-rigged to suit the University style of rowing. This would necessitate transporting a boat to New Haven, and, accordingly, the use of the Ward boat. Of the other two new shells one is also a regulation Ward while the other is one of the well-known Rough...
...agree with Mr. Joslyn that the transfusion of the mere form and technique of knowledge cannot accomplish the desired result. It is the substance that we must look at; and the true substance is the basic or molding idea...