Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ideal, not factual content", "by thought, not by rote" and all the rest. It is suggested, not that we try to act toward Harvard without prejudice, which would be calamitous, but that we try to learn about Oxford without prejudice. We are not after all trying to make over Oxford...
...discusses the scholarship of athletes and reaches the conclusion that "the athlete is rather more content with merely "getting by" than is the average undergraduate. "The Freshman athlete", he says, "new to college standards, fails to reach the average of his class in scholarship...
...defend themselves. This is an age of strenuous advertising, in which every cause, no matter how worthwhile, must constantly justify itself before the public or fall measurably in its success. Physicians may have dignified their business of selling health by calling it a profession, but if they are content to let more vociferous healers monopolize public attention, then foolish dignity must not excuse unfulfilled duty...
Although the attitude of the New York Medical Society on active publicity against quacks expresses merely a local feeling, it typifles, nevertheless, the over-scrupulous ethics of physicians all over the country. Doctors everywhere are content to leave it to other people to expose takes and attack charlatans, because, in the words of Dr. Galdston of the New York Society, "We doctors can advance our scientific knowledge but we have no time to defend science itself. . . . Ours is the aggression against disease, but the citizen's duty is the defense of our purpose...
...newest convert to the cause is always the most enthusiastic, which is probably the reason why the Reverend F. C. Potter, who has left a New York church to become the Secretary of the Friends of Antioch in America, views the Ohio college through such rose-tinted glasses. Not content with seeing in Antioch a notable experiment in education, useful in certain definite branches of education, the new secretary wants to establish the Antioch idea as "a basis of American educational institutions", broad enough to include both religion and practical life...