Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attack seems to be putting the cart before the horse. There is no effort made to make the curriculum more attractive to the student or to foster in him a desire to learn more or to take a high rank. Not at all. He can either study or loaf but at all events we shall deny him the privilege of outside activities...
...step with progress. There may have been a time when his doctrines would have won adherents; happily it is past, and they have been delegated to the dust bin where repose other curious and outgrown theories the hampered and restricted our daddies. College is a place to loaf, to invite the soul, to complete an education in athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension of the new art, the new politics, the new freedom. Study is alien to the college; it would intrude...
Many short-sighted college students console themselves for the lack of industry on their determination to labor conscientiously, once they enter the professional school. There is no greater fallacy than the one that leads us to think that it is safer to loaf in college than to loaf in a professional school. The young lawyer who has neglected the law may make up his deficiencies in the early years of his practice--"he will have plenty of time then." But there is no recovery of the years thrown away at college...
...paper to find the variety of predigested information furnished in the city, much of it on Sunday. Ford Hall meetings, Tremont Temple addresses, public library meetings, Lowell lectures and Faneuil Hall meetings, not to mention special lectures, crowd into view. The majority of students sleep half of Sunday and loaf the other half, or spend the entire day seeking a mild sort of amusement. How much better to utilize Sunday afternoons and evenings by attending a meeting of lecture of educational value...
...concentration and purpose with which students in professional and trades schools pursue their studies. Evidence of this is afforded every day in the University. The seriousness and industry of law and business school men is often a revelation to the undergraduate who is bent on enjoying his "four years' loaf." President MacCracken attributes this spirit to self-interest: "The trade, the profession, the definite pursuit, beckon instinctively every hour...