Word: fits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest is far superior in getting students to exercise than the compulsory gymnastic system some colleges have devised. Both are beneficial, but the interest of the student in voluntary athletics far outclasses the mechanical motions of formal calisthenics, and is certain to do as much to keep him physically fit...
...should like", says Mr. Allen in the "Atlantic Monthly", "to see lectures on 'How to Read the Newspapers given in colleges and schools and elsewhere." In the same issue Moorfield Storey writes: "The truth on matters of real public interest, well-weighed advice,--the news that is fit to print,--are what we have a right to expect from our newspapers. . . . Today the press is abandoning its high place, and, so far from educating the people, is too often corrupting and debasing them. . . . By excluding from their columns the matter that appeals to the lowest prejudices and passions of their...
...that the summer vacation would be the ideal time for such study. But since for the average Senior this was either physically or temperamentally impossible, the suggestion, however, logical, was not altogether practical. The fact remains that most of us find ourselves, even at this late date, endeavoring to fit into an already crowded schedule the necessary extra time. Nor do the students alone realize this difficulty. At that December discussion two members of the faculty raised the question whether, since it is assumed that the Senior is already doing all the work he can handle, he can be expected...
...recent issue of the "New Republic" is a review of the latest volume of Professor Channing's History of the United States. The reviewer, from his point of vantage in the real world of affairs, has seen fit to criticize not only the book but the author as being under the influence of the "academic scholar" point of view. Not content with this rebuke he proceeds to the startling generality that Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that...
...name indicates, a preparatory school aims to fit a man for higher education. Its work is not final, and a test of the specific knowledge which it gives is not a fair basis for judgement of its success. What should determine this is rather the student's record at college...