Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such courses, in which a mature scholar sets forth briefly the results of long study, are extremely valuable for such students as have the necessary background to enable them to appreciate the content of these courses, but there is always a danger that such a course may be discovered by an enterprising undergraduate in search of something that he can pass. And such courses are not usually difficult to pass. As an example from another field one might cite the discovery of radium, which to the scientific man was a matter of profound significance affecting the whole fabric of physical...
Maine gave the University little trouble in stopping its plays. Not once, strange to say, reverting to forward passes or open plays of any variety, the Pine Tree Staters seemed content to plug away at a stone-wall line or to essay futile swings around the end that usually were broken up before they reached the line of scrimmage. Only once was anything other than a straight play tried; and this criss-cross play was unmercifully smothered for a five-yard loss. Courtney was the lone star of the Maine offense, his clever dash up the sidelines just before...
...discussion; when these exist they are mainly social in their nature. There is not the stimulus to originality which a good man can get at Oxford or Cambridge. On the other hand, there is more equality of treatment; the passman does not fall into the slough of ignorant content which the English universities offer him. In the result the average man fares better than he does in England, while the progress of the man of genuine capacity is sacrificed to this doubtful relic of Jeffersonianism...
...Faculty, one of whose most justly and widely distinguished members he was, but to the country at large. Always vigorous in behalf of practical preparedness against war, Professor Johnston was unusually fortunate in the high degree of service which he was qualified to render when the test came. Not content with serving indirectly through those be had trained for military service both in the War College and Harvard, he felt impelled to add his own active services to their, in spite of long continued poor health and a weak heart...