Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...follow the scent, he will go hunting just the same. Everyone goes in for some sport. There are practically no "grinds" in our sense of that word at Oxford or Cambridge. The types of flat-chester, sallow, bespectacled student one sees laboring in the stacks of Widener do not exist here...
...would also be possible to eliminate some courses that exist purely for the purpose of disseminating information and nothing else, and a great many lectures whose purpose is avowedly that. Students would profit if they would devote the time to reading, that they they would otherwise spend in lectures. Professors and all instructors would benefit greatly, for under the present situation members of the faculty have to cut their own work down to an absolute minimum. How many professors except when on Sabbatical leave, find time to prepare a book for publication...
...alles will have to be settled. The movement has been started to make athletics the sanely adjusted power for good that they can be. "Sport for sport's sake" will sometime prevail over the attitude that success in sport is the measure of the worth of an institution. Athletics exist for purposes of the colleges: the colleges do not exist for purposes of sport. The Dartmouth
...should require only a few strong leaders to start the much-needed movement toward reform. Even Senator Walsh tacitly admits that conditions could be bettered, while at the same time he advises against the one thing that could bring about that betterment. So long as this attitude continues to exist just so long will city politics be the black sleep of the American environmental system...
Many of us who are interested in educational problems complain of the American system in general as being fundamentally wrong, and we hear vague sighs for the English method. Examinations are prescribed work, the bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution...