Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Personally, then, I may say that I have gained at least one great conviction in the years that I have followed intercollegiate athletics: a game that is worth playing at all is worth playing well. All youthful habits and tendencies are, of course, formative. This is recognized in the classroom where ill-ordered, half-hearted inefficient instruction is not tolerated, and where various measures are effective whereby students shall be inspired to a high sense of their opportunities as well as to lofty ideals concerning their duty to their college and their duty to themselves. In principle, at least...
...being talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
...first and always our friend; kind, sympathetic, tolerant, never the teacher on a pedestal but always the helpful advisor. Mingling as one of us he pointed the way by his wider culture and greater experience to better effort and broader ideas. We knew him as infinitely patient in the classroom and in the little study in Gray's Hall, where he cheerfully devoted himself to the troubles we laid before him. He served Harvard with rare fidelity and devotion; it is a lifetime of generous service that the University has lost by his death...
...military training at the colleges themselves. The curriculum of the artillery runs more nearly parallel to the academic program than does that of infantry or any other arm. There is enough technical and theoretical knowledge to be learned to keep several courses going throughout the year. With sufficient classroom work to be undertaken, winter drills under adverse conditions would not be necessary in order to keep the military system intact. This is perhaps the most important factor in adapting artillery to the exigencies of the college situation...
...said that it was perhaps harder than military service in that the ultimate purpose was not so clear, and urged men to take it up in order to learn the real secret of life--service. "Social welfare work is a laboratory for working out ideas conceived in the classroom here...