Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief evil of laying exclusive stress upon the degree, and of counting by courses, is that it fixes attention upon the pass mark. In order to correct this impression, and create a stronger desire for excellence, the institution of distinct honor and pass degrees, akin to the practice of the English universities, has often been suggested. Whether it would be wise to have different curricula for honors and for a pass, as in England, is by no means clear. The vital point is the importance which those universities have attached, and persuaded the public to attach, to the winning...
Following this, Major Higginson spoke briefly on Professor Agassiz's accomplishments: "His scientific career, his studies in science and his never-ending researches for fresh knowledge, which he could use so well because of his already acquired knowledge, his memories and reports were the chief objects of his life. His training and his unusual memory enabled him to assimilate all sorts of knowledge. When he took up any new subject, he knew just how to get at it and, therefore, he easily covered a very wide ground. It seemed as if he knew something about everything, about every place...
...Parsons graduated from Columbia University in 1879, and received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission...
...possible to make all academic lectures attractive, but it should be possible to make them so valuable that the student would regard a cut as a misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need hardly be said that this feeling is not now prevalent among the undergraduates. The chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most...
...primitive nakedness. What happens in "The World too Small for Three" is plausible enough, if time were given to the characters to arrive at the conclusions on which they act, and to the audience to realize that these conclusions are inevitable. But one resents being hurried; and the chief impression carried away is that the conception of character and the interest of the problem are both powerful enough to make it regrettable that the author did not take time and room enough to be convincing. Yet, in spite of indifferent acting, the performance is not dull; and the success...