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Word: dinfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method for combating the easy elective pick-a-pipe-course tendency of modern students is to require them to take enough work in any one subject so that they will really know something about it when they get through. Thereby he hopes to din into undergraduate minds the notion that they get an education by learning, not merely by acquiring so many credits; as the Harvard head puts it, "not only to offer dishes but to make the student eat out of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/2/1921 | See Source »

...watchful waking. Those who cherish a generous hope that succeeding generations may be spared the matutinal proclamation--abandon such wanton waste of brain energy! For as long as royal decrees survive, and until the initiative spirit of the outside world has penetrated the venerable customs of antiquity, the inane din will continue to destroy precious Senior slumber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PREMATURE ALARM | 2/26/1921 | See Source »

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