Word: extent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a little time, obviously, in a work where interesting detail so predominates, to discuss minutely the theories of education maintained and the methods used by the well-known masters. Rather, with the name of each man, is told the works he brought forth, the extent of his note and authority in the nation at large, and his popularity with the students or perhaps, his reserve. His campus hick name, his mannerisms, his students form the mainstay of the biographical portions of the narrative. Nevertheless, in speaking of Eliot, of Wendell of Charles Eliot Norton and of others like...
...King George. Said the letter, in part: "Great and good friend: "I have conferred the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon Mr. William Phillips, a distinguished citizen of the United States. . . . He is well informed of the desire of this government to cultivate to the fullest extent the friendship . . . between Your Majesty's Dominion of Canada and this country...
...that this machinery operates without regard to the consent of those affected. It held also that changing a death sentence to a life sentence was a legitimate part of the pardoning power, since a life sentence is commonly regarded as less severe than a death sentence, therefore, to some extent, a pardon...
...college the same tendency, though perhaps not to so great an extent, is to be distinctly observed. Any knowledge of the art of writing which the student may have acquired before coming to the University is soon lost upon his arrival, and the present objectionable system of taking notes compels him to fall in line with his fellow students in inventing a suitable method of short hand to enable him to take down the maximum number of facts in the minimum amount of time. Indeed, on the few occasions when he is compelled to write in examinations the results...
...greatest dangers inherent in the new balance of the college year are certainly the scholastic ones. All large American universities, however, are at present replete with the highly developed extra-curricular activities. These are to some extent the product of the present system of education, whereby one's study is controlled by the college officials. In changing the old educational system at Harvard there must follow a change in the position of ex-curricular interests...