Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other than the patrol boat units will directly encounter the armed forces of Germany. The ambulance corps, however, offers an indirect way of increasing the military strength of the Allies. Those men who, for such causes as defective eyesight have been refused admittance to the regular training corps will find ambulance work the most useful and valuable form of service they can render...
...memory, is futile, if that memorizing process is so mechanical that we forget all the facts after a quiz. Yet this is the system which is prevalent here at Harvard, and at other colleges throughout the country. With such methods of study there is little wonder that educators find their students submissively docile and without originality...
...Joan the Woman," there is a great deal that could be said about it, but any comment, whether of praise or blame, can with difficulty be expressed moderately. We might begin by saying that we have but little sympathy with the fastidious critics who find Mme. Farrar's conception of Joan of Arc a little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly...
...question is not whether everyone knows everyone else in the University. The question is whether the standards of intimacy are more strict or harder to overleap than at another place. It would be difficult to find any spot east of No Man's Land where no thought is paid to a man' s creed, his intelligence, or his breeding. If such a place were found it is a question whether we should care to go there. A man who has no standards of taste or judgement may well lack standards of anything else...
...across the way (for which I have a warm spot in my heart) demonstrates democracy after the big, free-and-easy manner of the West, and it is but natural that the democracy of Harvard be governed by the nervous and restrained East. I was indeed pleasantly surprised to find Harvard just as democratic in its way as the institution out West, and with due regard for Mr. Norton's opinions I believe he judged Harvard too quickly...