Word: generously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with high hopes, and genuine thankfulness that the CRIMSON learns of the generous appropriation granted to the University toward the foundation of a School of Education. Not only has school-teaching fallen into the position of a disgracefully neglected profession in America, but even the more specialized and advanced scholars who teach in our colleges are forced to pursue their calling in the face of popular indifference toward educational matters such as is almost unheard of in England and on the Continent. This indifference has manifested itself in what often amounts to popular resistance toward all but the most rudimentary...
...corporation also passed a special vote of appreciation to universities in France and England for the generous attitude they have taken toward American college men in the army...
...widen the range of instruction, if the point of view of the professor and that of the student are not to be hopelessly divergent. It ought to help redeem the summer vacation, now so striking an anomaly in an age of conservation. It ought to stimulate a more generous reading of standard books, outside of the class-room assignments, in the field in which the student is concentrating, and to add to the value of the tutorial system. --The Nation...
...fact that one University team in an attempt to uphold the liquor traffic in the recent intercollegiate debate was battered until it had, so to speak, not a keg to stand on, while its more soberly-inclined colleague went down utterly before the forces of booze, news of the generous distribution of gold and silver medals among the two unhappy teams is astonishing to say the least, besides giving color to the rumors that Harvard is fast becoming Prussianized. We are told that the Germans were accustomed to stimulate their troops after a "strategic retreat" by a wholesale dispensation...
...Senior class wishes to thank the Freshmen for their generous response to the Picnic appeal and appreciates the generous spirit in which the donation was given. It trusts that the class of 1922 will meet with an equally favorable return three years hence. H. C. FLOWER, JR., '19. R. E. GROSS '19. C. CANFIELD...