Word: listener
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...room lies in the fact that there is no "give and take" between the minds of professor and students. The former occupies an aloof, oracular position, delivering himself to a non-receptive audience of the ideas he has worked out alone or the facts he has collected. The latter listen without enthusiasm and dully set down in notes what they think they hear. In those cases where the lecturer, through his personality or power of popularizing, arouses unusual interest, a theatrical burst of applause betrays the peculiar attitude engendered by the platform lecture...
...would have to make. After many years he is at last in Harvard and as splendid a young man with sterling qualities that ought to stand for large things in the world. What was my surprise when at mid-years they advised him to drop out. Now please listen patiently. Of course we were heartbroken; so one morning I went over and talked with three men, and I said, "No, it is impossible that you can drop him out like that." Then I said, "What does D mean in Math" (This is now my main point, for Math. has always...
...privileges. A representative of the Union management would say that it is precisely the object of the Union to make itself attractive. It wishes to do this in order to get men to join. It does not do the Union any good to have a man come in and listen to part of a lecture once a year, and it does not do the man any good either. The Union wants to get men to join and see something of one another there--in that respect it is purely philanthropic. But it would be defeating...
...idea of classes out of College getting together informally be it to attend a Yale hockey game or to listen to the returns of the game in Pekin is an excellent one. It keeps the members of the class in intimate contact with each other, and it keeps the class or large sections of it in touch with the University. There need be no artificial "frattiness" about such meetings; but it is surely one of the best vacations a man can have to forget for an evening his business cares and to mingle with his classmates. About Boston there...
...Union, are dangerous hotbeds of vice. One upright young man has urged that beer be abandoned. He is right. Another is opposed to tobacco. It should be tabooed. The CRIMSON thinks conversation should also be prohibited as it leads to gossip and stories no decent boy should listen to. We urge all the fellows to do something about this. Let everyone do his duty for the honor of the University...