Word: defects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...School Society, under whose auspices the meeting will be held, has arranged to provide seats for all, thus removing the defect of the opening reception...
Mine were quite well-intentioned motives in perpetrating this airy and cloud-like "pedagogical debate." It seemed to me that there was more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long a time been moribund; it seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this...
...intimated, nor had in mind any remotest criticism of Harvard nor yet of any other college or university. I was speaking of a general conception of education, or formal training, which prevails in Europe as well as in America. This conception and its application have, I believe, a defect which I think is at least partly responsible for the odd fact that, so far as I can discover, about eight men in ten, on completing their formal education, find the choice of a life work an extremely perplexing problem. This defect, however, is one which neither Harvard...
...theme, too, was remedy and not defect. I had aimed to give, in the "Illustrated," a bit of advice that seems sometimes to have helped young men when they face that troublesome problem of choosing a life career. In very condensed form that advice is, to bear in mind that those interests and proclivities which one acquired spontaneously as a boy, outside of the schoolroom, and which one has more or less kept up or more or less neglected during the more exacting years of high-school and college, that those proclivities are still a part of oneself. They...
...Depot Brigade and the Worcester Academy elevens. Both Coach Rollins and Coach Wallace prefaced work on the field with blackboard talks illustrating weak points. The Freshmen on the field spent the greater part of the time in perfecting defence formations against the forward pass, as this was the chief defect in the work of the team on Saturday. With the informals in the Stadium the light workout consisted principally in punting for the backs, and breaking through for the linemen...