Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second proposition, that the free elective system is unrivalled in the promotion of broad views. As far as it is a question of securing to the student a wide and same view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study and compel the student...
...current year (1904-05) and that the School as a whole "has always been, is now, and is intended to be, a place for steady work and the most strenuous endeavor on the part of both its teachers and its students." That this is not an empty claim is indicated further on in the report by the fact-that the average working time for the four-years' course in mining and metallurgy is fifty-two hours a week, or nearly nine hours a day, and that two-thirds...
...matter for future decision. Certain it is that the undergraduate will not object, and will gladly welcome the Monthly into the active life of the University and help it to the place of influence to which the efforts of its editors in the interest of the University give it claim...
...There will be no upset, no new policies to inaugurate, and no revolution. We make no claim that this system will produce a better team next year. In most ways it would be hard to produce a better team than the one which lined up against Yale this year. The coach on the field will be selected as in previous years and will have nearly the same authority. The committee of seven is too large to undertake to handle the actual coaching and should not attempt it, as nothing but confusion would result. They will probably meet seldom and operate...
...Paradies," by Hans Sachs, "Die Gesch- wister," by Goethe, and "Unter Vier Augen," by Ludwig Fulda. The first of these was very amusing in its grotesque quaintness, and the last in its humorous situations. The play by Goethe was the least attractive of the three. It made no claim to humor, and as a serious piece, failed to arouse great interest...