Word: eagerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heeded. Unfortunately, to our way of thinking, the conception of such a memorial seems to indicate a confusion of relative values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past is a purpose with which college men will sympathize; but the more immediate concern must rightly be the Future. There are crying needs in the University...
Work from now on will, of course, have as its chief feature intensive preparation for the triangular regatta on Saturday. The Navy is eager to wipe out last year's defeat at the hands of Princeton, while Dr. Spaeth is reported to have as strong a crew as usual to uphold the Orange and Black. If the weather conditions are favorable, Saturday should see one of the prettiest races of years on the Charles...
...University is to take "the unit of education, the Boy," and "make out of him all that it is possible to make." Purpose such as this implies that the students must not be classified in any such manner as to label them in fact or in effect, the "eager" and the "unwilling"; but the suggestion that all be treated as of the "eager" class is, or ought to be, a fundamental principle of the college. Cortainly that great freedom given the individual, here implies confidence in the good intentions, it implies intelligence to profit by the freedom, which is often...
There are many professors who conduct their courses on the assumption that all are eager; and curiously enough these are usually the teachers; their assumption is not only of inestimable value to the eager, but it is in many cases appreciated by the unwilling. The latter is mollifled when he finds that no one cares whether he is unwilling or not; he feels that he is the listener to intercourse between people who are really interested in their subject. So he becomes an outsider, unless he studies sufficiently to talk in the same language as the interested; this...
...will be remembered, the assumption is that all are eager...