Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Emmons 2d., '98, "How Medical School Graduates Fare." Dr. Emmons points out the desirability of first of all knowing for what one has an aptitude and a liking. He suggests that a young doctor work at first with older men before assuming complete responsibility, and that the element of team work play a more prominent part in the profession...
This is not to say that all the others are to be classed as "grinds." The term "grind" is, or ought to be, applied to the man whose interests are one-fold, whose mind is literally single-tracked. He fails to acquire the human element in culture. Of course, the scholar whose name appears on no University record besides this list and the Directory, may have varied tastes; the drama, or music, or attempting to create literature may be his humanizing hobbies. And the football player may be a grind as well as the scholar,--if he cannot see beyond...
...plan at present is to hold two tournaments in the latter part of February, one for upper classmen, the other for Freshmen, if the consent of the proper authorities be obtained. In order to eliminate, so far as is possible, the element of physical danger, an especially heavily padded glove will be used and the number of rounds to each tournament match will be limited to the point of perfect safety...
...growth of this interest, too, has greatly, altered the physician's relation to society. He is no longer concerned with individuals alone; his action must be determined by their effect upon the whole community. And so though the more conservative element of the country was shocked by the recent action of a Chicago surgeon, who decided to allow a baby to die rather than perform an operation that would have given it a life of helpless misery, the incident but illustrates one of the big problems that physicians everywhere are being called upon to face in a new light. Their...
...most obvious element of attractiveness in the ministry is its stability as a continuing function of society. It rests back upon fundamental and essentially unchanging elements of human experience; it has the immense initial advantage of springing from, and appealing to, one of the central instincts of the human race. For the minister is par excellence the religious leader of the community and religion is one of the most serious, the most permanent and inclusive interests of human beings. The sex hunger, the desire for food and clothing the passion to understand ourselves and the universe in which we live...