Word: giving
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...units next year, the government bulletin has said, "The war has demonstrated conclusively that our colleges and universities furnish the best material for officers from civil life. A sound body, the ability to think clearly, and ideals of service, are part of what a college aims to give its students, and are the most important basic qualifications for an officer. In addition, practically every branch of knowledge has its military applications. In most cases a slight addition of material to a course, showing the military application of the principles taught, will add not only to the military value of that...
...season was on the whole very successful. The four objects which the coaches outlined as the aim at the beginning of the season were in the main accomplished. They were first to get a line on the new men, to get football into the heads of the players, to give as much individual instruction as possible, and lastly to try out new plays...
...learn with interest that the New York Times has been able to find cause for merriment at the expense of the University by an arraignment of the Hostess House. It is always a pleasure to be able to give others pleasure but in some cases this felicity is tinged with a certain degree of seriousness. We do not pretend to guess to what extent the Times meant its remarks, reprinted below, but the fact remains that such an editorial can go a long way in creating a false impression of Harvard in places beyond the confines of the Yard...
...students themselves. But in such an atmosphere of reform it would hardly be reasonable to suppose that even the irresponsible undergraduate could escape the fever. It is worse than a revivalist camp meeting! The paramount idea in this reform is, of course, that provided men do not give as much time to outside activities, they will devote more time to their studies. By preventing a man from doing more than a certain amount of athletics, writing, managing, etc., he will be faced with the alternative of spending more time on his studies or of doing nothing. This method of attack...
...facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left for the technical school. The object of college is to teach a man to think; to give him a general well-rounded intellectual development which he may use in any field of human life. It should teach not facts, but how to find facts when they are needed. Yet the ordinary test in college from its very nature is limited to facts; the general examination need...