Word: inert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student himself gains without doubt a varied and valuable education--but an education that is founded upon books alone. And a high stack of books with no supporting substance will topple and lie inert in heaped confusion. For the application of book facts to life is the true value of an education. Such value is only found in four years of college life among the friends, traditions and ideals of a single institution...