Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...younger generation, it would seem, has no intention of breaking records in the matter of being graduated with the least possible amount of studying, even though it evinces a certain arch pride in pointing out that it, too, occasionally depends on bluff to answer Mr. Cram's essay questions. Recently a Yardling was heard to remark with a lifted eyebrow and a smug smile to an apparently shocked companion: 'You know, I didn't crack a book all day yesterday...
...prize, competed for each year by 700 Freshmen, is awarded to the student who writes the best course essay during the second half year. Peel's essay, entitled "A Thwarted Revolt," was a discussion of the history of Germany immediately after...
...veneration of Montaigne is touched upon by Charles Cestre; Maurice Le Breten discusses Henry Adams' tardy discovery of France by way of the Norman churches and Chartres; Jacques Chevalier analyzes the intellectual affinity between Henri Bergson and William James. Bergson himself, in a graceful comment on Chevalier's essay, records his personal memories of James, whose portrait hangs before him as he writes...
...Physiography in France, of the influence of the "case system" developed at the Law School and the School of Business Administration on teaching methods in similar French institutions, and of the precious aid brought to the study of French mediaeval archeology by Harvard scholars. Paul Hazard, in the concluding essay, summarizes some of the thrings that Harvard has given to the many French teachers and students who have so journed here, among them, "a new conception of the relationship between students and teachers, between the students and the University, between the University and life...
...general education. In this case the stream of learning and research inevitably dries up; indeed, some have contended that it should. Newman defined his idea of a university as "a place of teaching universal knowledge, for the diffusion and extension of knowledge rather than the advancement." In his famous essay be recommended "a division of intellectual labour between learned academies and universities." (In twentieth century terminology we should substitute the words "research institute" for "academy".) He believed that "to discover and to teach are two distinct functions." Newman's proposal amounted to eliminating one of the four vital ingredients evident...