Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these ways to give to intellectual pursuits a higher place in the undergraduate esteem should, of course, be done. But the question is much more than a matter of details. As one of the essayists remarks, "the fundamental consideration is the development of a new public opinion that shall condemn and ostracize the laggard and recognize the leadership of the intellectual student." Impartial observes have noted a more serious attitude toward the intellectual side of university life in the West than in the East. Here it tends to become the custom for any years at a university. The inevitable outcome...
...work under a trainer who knows his weaknesses and powers. In short, it is the old question of establishing intimacy between student and instructor. It takes men already intellectually alive, and not men bribed by hopes of undergraduate kowtowing, to arouse "a new public opinion that shall condemn of ostracize the laggard...
...word perhaps regarding that poor woman in Canton. Now supposing this to be a fact attested by unbiased witnesses, would it be fair--unless it can be proved that it is an everyday occurrence--to condemn a people wholesale from one instance? As well consider the recent case of the New England clergyman Richeson as typical and condemn the whole American society! And apart from that, are there not even in the civilized West instances of suffering--unrelieved suffering--so heartrending as to lead some of the most thoughtful of men to turn pessimistic and pronounce modern civilization...
There are men of power and insight who condemn the University teams for their effect upon both these elements; for, they say, the strenuous physical work of athletes exhausts their vitality to a point where serious application to academic pursuits is impossible. They assert, moreover, that interest in the games draws the attention of every undergraduate away from his studies...