Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy crew, though the favorite in today's race, is not the heaviest of the competing crews. The Cornell eight is the rangiest and heaviest of all the crews. Cornell is out to correct the impression it made last year, when the stroke taught by Dr. Lueder seemed extremely ineffective and the Big Red eight was left far behind. At that time the Cornell crew was rowing, as advertised, in the old Courtney style; but the trouble was that the "old Courtney style" was the form taught by the famous Cornell mentor of years past before he had found...
This answer, while being partly correct, entirely misses the big point. The student taking the arts course in the college, or the student in the business school preparing himself for something outside of the engineering field would rather scorn the idea of an engineering course as fitting preparation for anything but the practice of engineering. Likewise, the student in the engineering school looks askance upon those who suggest the possibility that he will not make engineering his life work, yet it is a conservative estimate to say that out of ten graduates from the Engineering School, only three are practicing...
...what he denotes by waste is rather imperative before one suggests that his statement is as superficial as it is general. If he means that one does not learn plumbing in college or exactly the best way to dodge the income tax or make pongee pajamas he is probably correct. But if he means that in the four years at college the undergraduate does not learn better himself and the world as well as the worlds which have preceded this phenomenon of bath tubs and Bolsheviki, he is certainly treading difficult ground...
...vitally concerned with all they do and all that is done to them. No longer are they accepting rules, regulations, customs, or traditions, on faith. Reflecting the analytical tendencies of the professional, scientific, and literary man, the undergraduates are no longer content with anything until it is proved correct by analysis. There is nothing yet to show that this tendency is beneficial to the community. It cannot be said certainly that the many educational innovations of the past few years would not have taken place just the same if the students had kept perfectly silent. Yet the fact must...
...twisting facts and dragging in famed medical names, which he otherwise sneers at, he gives the impression to his misty-minded readers that "correct" diet will cure cancer...