Word: clingingly
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...other poets cling to more familiar methods. Mr. Cutler's heartfelt protest...
...centuries passed schools slipped from the control of the Church, and benefit of clergy was no more. But no people cling to tradition and custom as do schoolmen the world over. And so Latin, and Greek too, for that matter, remained a basic part of the usual school curriculum. And now some disrespectful and doubting inquirer stands up and asks why it is that children should spend so large a fraction of their whole school time in the technical study of languages that have been dead and buried these many years. Immediately there is a great hunting for reasons...
...have been dumped into a new system of education and must strain every power to stand with self-control the test of freedom. It takes a strong personality to weather the storms which are coming, but, once through unscathed, you have won the battle for success at Harvard. Cling to your ideals, though they seem but straws, and, if they are high ideals, you are safe...
Dean Castle finds the remedy of conditions as they stand in the appointment of younger instructors "who have gone through college with open eyes, receptive mind, and clean hands; who have appreciated temptations and withstood them--men, many of whom will not cling to teaching as a profession but who are eager to rectify in still younger men, the mistakes they themselves have made, and who are teachers because of their desire to be of service...
This conception, to which the undergraduates tenaciously cling, is receiving a rude shaking at the hands of three year graduations. With so many Seniors in the Law School our belief in the unity of Harvard College is waning fast. The CRIMSON can think of no greater gift to Harvard than an increase in the requirements, that will assure once and for all the necessity of a four year course; this to be followed by a change in viewpoint among the powers that be, recognizing the pre-eminent position of Harvard College for which undergraduates yearn...