Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...doses of bitter medicine to be swallowed indiscriminately at more or less frequent intervals. Given a book, he dully reads the sentences, exercising on selection, but expecting that in some mysterious way he will absorb knowledge by the mere conning of the words. At a lecture he does not know how to condense points made into intelligible, concise statements suitable for notes. If the lecturer is not one who carefully labels all his topics and introduces them with "first, secondly, thirdly, etc.", the student is often at a complete loss...
...trouble lies in the fact that most students do not know how to study. As Freshmen they are plunged into seas of work, without receiving any careful instruction on methods of doing it. They flounder for a time, until they evolve inefficient, make-shift ways for themselves. Some, not so fortunate, do not learn the rough-and-ready lessons of experience soon enough, and their college careers find early ends...
...Freshman in the CRIMSON news competition meets more men and gets to know more about all phases of the University than a man in any other sort of competition...
...last the interdormitory smoker has been revived; a committee has been appointed and the first smoker arranged for. The CRIMSON has always contended that these smokers are important factors in getting the men of a class to know each other...
...snob. He did not want to know men so that in the future when they had made a success he could say, "Oh yes; I know him; he was in my class." He wanted to know men because of their worth; because their friendship might be an inspiration and help to him in College and out of it. But he only knows a limited circle--those in his club, a few who have lived near him and borrowed his books, a few men he has met casually during his four years. But most of his class is completely foreign...