Word: exertions
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...touch with the teachings of Christianity and thereby be induced to accept its benign precepts. . . . Are you in favor of employing an army and navy to effectuate righteousness and justice? The only alternative to that is to establish the best possible treaty relations and friendly intercourse, and thus, exert such moral influence and such moral leadership...
...determination of this issue, a clarification of purpose, most patently are required. By all means let American undergraduates be called upon to use their wits and use them abundantly, but if they are to use them in a manner which could not possibly exert practical influence upon any jury, any Legislature, any public assembly or board of directors, let some new name be invented for such lightsome exercise. After all, it is a bit laughable to drag the laws of argumentation into the making only of laughter. Better the smile alone, without implied insult to logic...
...result many a boy finds himself on the last lap of what is supposed to be his education without ever having learned to study. Regardless of all other factors, there is a pretty constant ratio between attainment and application, and until the American boy begins seriously to exert himself from an earlier age it is not likely that any other reforms will greatly affect the age of his intellectual maturity--Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...gasoline and jazz, of the movie and the radio, of the new woman and her liberty. . . ." Dr. Smith decided that college matriculants simply are not fitted to live college life. They are, he could but conclude, just irresponsible, ill-licked cubs. They should examine themselves and try to exert their faculties, not primarily upon problems in algebra and Greek roots, but upon manhood and the wise conduct of their lives...
...ultimate consequences of this shift of emphasis concerning the individual student will become, if the new tendency is long continued, very extensive. It can scarcely fall to exert a modifying effect upon the whole structure of American college education. Less and less faith will be placed, for example, in the importance of lectures, and more and more regard will be given to all those efforts which the student is led to undertake largely upon his own initiative to wit, energetic collateral and "outside" reading, debate among his fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities...