Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each term is untouched by the examinations. There is a danger here that without a check, easy-going students may postpone the study and reading which should be done throughout the period of formal teaching, thus leaving it to be done in the reading period. A student might therefore find himself saddled in the reading period with a double amount of work: that which should have been done in conjunction with his daily lectures and classes, and that which is assigned for the reading period...
Because of the fact that a last minute accident to one of the oarsmen in the first University boat would find no substitute prepared for the four mile grind it has been decided to train both the first and second eights for this distance. The same plan will be followed by Coach Leader...
...well be asked, with all these far-reaching agencies right under his nose cannot the young journalist gain a first hand and accurate conception of politics which will be invaluable to him when he throws his own hat in the political ring? Unfortunately this young journalist will find no "open sesame...
...find Sister Caroline...
...speaking of the first, and in fact the continuing task of such a School--to find what essentials should and could be taught, and then learning how they could be taught, Professor Gay told of the skeptical business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the School in its early days. The visitor asked what, apart from a certain amount of technical knowledge, were the qualities required for success in business. The answer was: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness of 'gumption'." When he said triumphantly...