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...devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure of any more energy on the part of the pupil than is absolutely necessary...
...public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more closely than ever before to the civilized nations of the earth, and that it will be wise to impart to the young knowledge of the history, customs, and ideas of peoples other than their own. Returning soldiers will perhaps render efficient aid in this branch of study...
...country now sends him to us to tell us something of France's story, her present situation, and her hopes. We have all read to a certain extent, but reading is tame sport compared to hearing. Tonight we have a man who knows and who has the personality to impart what he knows with great effect...
...whole, then the College had better close its doors permanently. But if, on the other hand, education in the manifold forms in which it is given by the various institutions of learning, is essential to modern civilization and to the United States, then the College certainly cannot cease to impart...
...University in this way obtains the services of men who have been trained in the trenches as well as on the drilling ground, men who can impart to the recruits of the R. O. T. C. knowledge which could not be obtained by the best officer in a country which has long been at peace. These new allies of the United States are coming to Cambridge to continue the work which they can no longer carry on in the trenches...