Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realm of sportsmanship little things count for much. The changing of the term "opponents" to the more genial "visitors" on the University's score boards is on the surface but a minor alteration, yet it helps to promote that atmosphere of gentlemanly rivalry which ought to distinguish all intercollegiate contests. While Dean Briggs was Chairman of the Athletic Committee it was ever his purpose to foster such a spirit; and this change is but one visible expression of his policy...
...thing of the pas. "The course system as a method of college instruction masses men into an educational factory. Its only result can be an approach to a standardized product. Humanity cannot and ought no to be standardized. Every student in college presents a different combination of characteristics which distinguish him from his fellow-students. The individual student should be modeled on his own personality rather than on a common ideal...
...life. It will be his excuse for never doing anything great. Indeed, athletic fame, although it is made so much of in the present and occupies the minds of so many persons to the exclusion of everything else, is the least enduring of all fame. A Harvard graduate who distinguishes him-self in public life, writing, teaching, science, or the fine arts will be remembered when all the athletes in his class are forgotten. As the mental powers of the average undergraduate are very limited and he is anxious to distinguish himself in some way, he turns to athletics. Hence...
These advocates of the classical tradition in education wish to distinguish between the man who wants a cultural education and the man who wants a vocational training. They do not think that vocational training is unnecessary or that it is to be regarded with indignation; they do believe, however, that those who are students of factory or business management, scientific poultry raising or agriculture should be trained for their professions in vocational or trade schools, thus permitting the college and the university to remain symbolic of that which it was originally symbolic: of the Arts and Sciences...
...student not only gets something different, but he expects something different. In England you go to the university to develop yourself, while in America you go to the university to distinguish yourself. There you have a whole world of difference. In America a boy is always endeavoring to attain some outward sign of achievement?to make the college paper, to make one of the clubs or fraternities, to make the football team. The centre of gravity is in the world of action far more than in the world of thought...