Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student can live at Harvard long without receiving some impression from the memorable buildings with their old associations which fill the Yard. But very few know much about the rapidly passing generations of college men who have lived in them. The lists posted in some of the dormitories, although now no longer up to date, help a little to remedy this; and it is encouraging to note that they are to be extended to the rooms of the other buildings. It may be suggested that, inasmuch as the names of the better known recent members of the University still have...
...These figures do not represent a final total, as one or two collectors have not yet handed in complete reports. There are also a number of men who have not yet contributed. All these are requested to make their contributions at once, so that the class officers may know exactly how much to count upon in arranging for the coming smokers and class entertainments...
...student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history when four-fifths of their students do not know whether Winston Churchill or von Bethmann-Hollweg is Prime Minister of England?"--The New Republic...
Such is the established policy of weekly journals. Slam the undergraduate and especially slam the professor. Woeful indeed is such ignorance. Yet those editors of this periodical who have taken History 1 in the University should know that if Gallipoli and Saloniki are unknown to students it is not the fault of the course. It is true that the earnest student is so swamped with work in learning what men have written in the past that he must largely defer until graduation the pleasanter task of reading what they are writing now. Even so, he grows while in college...
...strikes me as the chief distinction of this number is the noble absence of the "interesting." That disordered curiosity to which almost every writer today panders is here ignored. The best criterion by which to determine the artistic worth of a narrative is the question, Are you eager to know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot...