Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intellectual pursuits a higher place in the undergraduate esteem should, of course, be done. But the question is much more than a matter of details. As one of the essayists remarks, "the fundamental consideration is the development of a new public opinion that shall condemn and ostracize the laggard and recognize the leadership of the intellectual student." Impartial observes have noted a more serious attitude toward the intellectual side of university life in the West than in the East. Here it tends to become the custom for any years at a university. The inevitable outcome is the presence at eastern...
...trainer who knows his weaknesses and powers. In short, it is the old question of establishing intimacy between student and instructor. It takes men already intellectually alive, and not men bribed by hopes of undergraduate kowtowing, to arouse "a new public opinion that shall condemn of ostracize the laggard...
...Sumichrast will give the sixth of his series of illustrated lectures on "The British Empire, Its Origin and Growth," under the auspices of the Victoria League in the United States, at 8 o'clock this evening in Chickering Hall, Boston. The subject of this lecture is, "Africa, the Laggard Continent." The last lecture of the series on "The Power of the Empire" will be given on April...
...delivered by Professor de Sumichrast before the Victoria League in the United States on "The British Empire, Its Origin and Growth." A charge of 50 cents will be made to all attending who are not members of the League. The sixth lecture of the series on "Africa, the Laggard Continent," will be delivered on March 16; the last lecture on "The Power of the Empire" on April...