Word: chaff
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...stick to it. Here at College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...
...college man can be trusted to sift the wheat from the chaff, for, if I know him at all, he does not believe everything he is told by any means. If he is not allowed to hear any radical ideas in the university, he will meet them in the world later, when he has not the same time to stop and discover which are true and which false...
Give them "hayseed," chaff from the barn floor, crumbs, scraps of meats, bones, and suet, anything eatable, and they will repay you a thousand fold by their work in the garden and the orchard...
...suet securely to the trees and see how eagerly the chickadees and wood-peckers go to it. Tread the snow down hard and scatter the hayseed and crumbs there, or put the food on a board or box and watch the juncoes and tree sparrows fill up. Put out chaff and grain for the quail and meadowlarks in the pasture. They work for us all summer long, eating insects...
...importance in that it will be a fruitful source for information that is carefully authenticated, pre-digested, and served up in most tempting style for the inert undergraduate. The men of both teams have been spending busy weeks preparing their arguments. They have sifted their facts thoroughly, eliminated the chaff, and dressed them up in the best possible garb. No speaker will make a point of showing the seamy side of his case; but hostile critics will come before and after; and the truths which escape unscathed will have a strong claim to validity. The difference between hearing a carefully...