Word: dab
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...much is being said at present about the value of odds and ends. It seems to be a general impression that a student can take a slight dab or economics, a dash of sociology, a salting of rhetoric and literature, a minute sprinkling of precious stones, creative listening, fine arts, and what not, and a very medium dose of languages, and come out quite the University concoction. Glimpses and vistas, not real understanding, are being recommended for the "broad" college course. The student is getting the merest taste of the elementals of everything, and dropping the threads where they begin...