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...strengths of the human spirit that it is able to impart its disciplined enthusiasm to fellow spirits. It is our misfortune that frequently, in a world so lonely as ours can be, it is not possible for the questing mind of the teacher to draw peaceful satisfaction from the art of teaching. Our intellectual systems have released a world of potentialities. But each individual is faced with the Herculean task of making a personal adjustment to this formidable problem, and to the war generation even more than to ourselves this presents an undertaking which is sometimes too much...
...Wisconsin University contains a proposal that college, especially state institutions, should mould their curricula so as to train students to deal with the particular problems of the state in which they are located. Asserting the need for expert public servants, the report claims that the best way to impart the essential training is to use the local problems as a basis for a curriculum and to illustrate solutions with examples taken from history...
...prize for research to Dr. Oscar K. Rice, Instructor in chemistry, is an eminently fitting recognition of his work in machanics and in the application of physics to chemistry. He has already secured a high place among scholars in his department, and his pleasing personality has enabled him to impart his discoveries to students with unusual success...
Regarding cultural problems he also had wisdom to impart...
Late in the spring of 1867 a youthful musician harbored secret plans for running away to join a circus band. For seven weary years he had assiduously scraped his practice fiddle; now with all the confidence that the maturity of his thirteen summers could impart, he determined to practice no more. Henceforth, ho too, like his father, would command applause from large audiences. Informed of the project, his parent anticipated its execution by apprenticing him to the marine corps band of which he was a member. In order to prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer...