Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most serious defects in Harvard today is the type of man who has a position of "assistant" in some of the courses too large for the professor or instructor to handle alone. Out of twenty-one "assistants" with whom I have come in contact I have found only eight really good men, five mediocre men, and eight who were very poor. These last eight had no right to be in that position...
...know how "assistants" are chosen, so I cannot offer any remedy for the system, but I can say that an assistant's position should not be the means of any graduate student working his way through for a Ph.D., nor should it be a position for any man who happens to want it who can flash a Phi Beta Kappa key. One does not have to be a scholar to be a teacher...
Charles Lanier Lawrance: Engineer: the inventor of a motor that has made flying more safe for man...
Robert Russa Moton: Worthy successor of a great educator of his race--a man whose courage and sagacity have triumphed over perils to his school...
...man Winers Harold Arnold Weit, and William Sterling Youngman...