Word: founds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...research and graduate work done in American colleges. He finds that students doing more advanced work do not show the initiative and originality they should, and consequently are passive and docile in their thoughts. The reason given by this writer for such submissiveness of mind is to be found in the present system of wholesale memory work. Lecture notes and contents of books are learned for the occasion only and do not become a permanent mental possession to serve as a background for the more advanced work...
Throughout the performances highly creditable standards were displayed as to technique and interpretation, and the Club is to be congratulated for its able re-affirmation of the genuine musical gifts to be found within the University
...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...
...article published by the Stanford Illustrated Review J. K. Norton, one of the Leland Stanford University hurdlers who was such a noteworthy competitor in the Intercollegiate Track Meet of last May, records his impressions of Harvard. A distinction which he draws in regard to the democracy found at the two universities is a little misleading. "The spirit of easy democracy," he says, "is absent at Harvard. . . . and the air of general familiarity that exists at Stanford is absent on the Harvard Yard...
...initial practice of the two first crews in the Lynn harbor which was to have been held yesterday afternoon was postponed until today because it was found impossible to arrange facilities for launching the shells. The float used by the West Lynn Boat Club was washed away shortly after being put in place, and without it no boats could be put on the water. The two shells which were sent down yesterday have arrived and the Pup 1, which will be used by Coach Haines, has been launched on the harbor. Early this afternoon the two first eights will leave...