Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time when all Europe is concerned chiefly with discovering and putting to use new methods of blowing to pieces and patching up the human body, a greater interest than ever before attaches to the medical profession. Every day the invention of some new fiendish device of slaughter brings with it the counter-discovery of a new remedy. Day by day the problems of the physician become more intricate; and the field of medical science is broadened by leaps and bounds...
...many more in the professional school, and a subsequent period of hospital service, frighten away the man who requires quick material results. The field is left for those who seek in it life-long service, a keen and wide knowledge of human nature, and opportunity for gratifying scientific interest...
...Parker, football critic of the Boston Post; makes an annual practice at this season of the year of forecasting the line-up of the University, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and Dartmouth elevens for the ensuing season. His prognostication of the personnel of the 1916 University eleven is of unusual interest. Of the present University team the men who are to receive their diplomas in June are Mahan, King, Watson, Soucy, Wallace, Cowen, and Parson. Mr. Parker, after studying an eligible squad of some 40 men, comes to the conclusion that the University will not have such a green and inexperienced eleven...
...Nation wishes to extend the conclusion "to cover the question what American men in general talk about." This writer complains that at gatherings of college men he is entertained only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That" on football, and is told that that is the only interest college men have in common. A business man avers that among undergraduates "the range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the other would be amazed...
...easy to exaggerate, as these critics doubtless do, swayed as they are by indignation over a condition which greatly needs improvement. One must not forget, for example, the special interest clubs of the University, the well- attended extra lectures and the various publications. Certainly no separate indictment of Harvard or even of Memorial diners is in order. Much less can it be charged that the American college, because of its shortcomings, fails in use fulness; that its graduates are not above the average in intellectual interests...