Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times at least half of the courses which were given in the School. He was equally well acquainted with the history of the Common Law and with the most modern decisions, and was familiar with the principles of the Civil Law. Endowed with an extraordinary memory, a constructive legal mind not surpassed by living man, a deep-rooted sense of justice, he would have become a legal writer of great eminence; and he is famous for his short legal treatises in the Harvard Law Review, which he helped to establish. But his main influence on the law was excited...
...prevalent among the undergraduates. The chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most important facts. There can be no doubt that facts can be learned far more thoroughly and accurately from printed than from spoken words. Criticism, comment, and explanation can, on the other hand be admirably conveyed in lectures, provided the hearer is already acquainted...
...circumstances and regulations governing the applications for rooms in the Senior dormitories are somewhat complicated, partly because of the varying size of the groups which may apply, and partly because of the newness of the system, we wish to call attention to three points which should be borne in mind when making application. In the first place, the committee, wishing to obviate all possibility of misunderstandings, is keeping daily office hours, and by consulting with its members every detail concerning the allotment may be clearly ascertained...
...ground-work. At present a crisis is imminent in the Japanese field of education. The old social system based upon the idea that the national unit was the family is now at variance with the more modern idea of the individual as the national unit. Keeping in mind the fundamental characteristics which have made it possible for the nation to receive so much that is foreign, the government is looking forward to making a change so that what is good of the old may be combined with the best...
...leaving College or entering a graduate school at the end of Junior year or in the middle of Senior year. It is easy to see how the loss of such a part of each Senior class may interfere very seriously with athletics. One can readily call to mind several recent cases in which Harvard teams have been deprived of good athletes, who were ineligible during what would naturally have been their Senior year in College...