Word: harvester
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...classroom, which he himself would be quick to acknowledge as of almost equal importance, in the aggregate, with instruction itself. Perhaps we are wrong in thinking that the younger men, in respect to physique and character, are already at a disadvantage, and find themselves unable to reap a full harvest in the fields of "interests and activities." It is true that the present century is far slower in developing its youths than the past have been. The Elizabethans were taking their degrees at our age of matriculation. But we may answer than in England now, in the same universities...
Kaye-Smith: Green Apple Harvest...
...protest that has ensued is unwarranted. Lecturing has come to be an honorable profession, and at present it vies with baseball and the movies as a source of fame and fortune. A glance at the year's harvest of lecture-tour celebrities will carry conviction: Margot Asquith, Philip Gibbs, Conan Doyle, Hugh Walpole, and now Emile Coue:--in fact, any Englishman or foreigner with more than seven lines to his credit in the current "Who's Who" is regarded as eligible to lecture the American people. It is a pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have...
...Wherefore, we commend unto the Circle of the Elders who forever labor that their charges may gather to the full the harvest of their studies without undue unpleasantness to the latter in the process thereof--we commend unto them the example of Doctor Choqqueguiran, our inspired instructor of logical disputation. It having occurred to him that his pupils were not entirely absorbed in the devolutions of his lectures he struck upon the happy thought of having his pupils demonstrate the workings of the principle of the syllogism by the acting of charades. Thereafter he discovered that the pupils waited upon...
While Yale has had its Freshman-Sophomore rushes and the Sophomores of Princeton and Columbia have reaped a harvest from the sale of Freshman hats and rule cards, Harvard, virtually alone among all the Eastern colleges, has no such customs. Many upper classmen and even freshmen regret it, while graduate students from other institutions maintain that Harvard undergraduates never experience what they commonly term "college life". The criticism is well founded; certainly that kind of college life is conspicuously absent; it runs counter to a fundamental principle of the University...