Word: modicums
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...four courses a year, to go through the entire curriculum offered by Harvard College. Whether these figures are accurate or not, it is obvious the four years of the ordinary undergraduate course are hopelessly inadequate for any man to go beneath the surface even in his chosen field. The modicum of A.B. learning,--"a great deal of knowledge about a good many subject"--is pitifully small when placed beside what could be done if there were "only the time". Most men have to be satisfied with this excuse and resolve mentally each year to visit in" on several outside courses...
When we hear that a young Brazilian scientist has landed in New York who claims that by a process of blood irrigation he can revive the dead, change a negro into a white man, reduce one's necessary modicum of sleep from eight hours to one, and indefinitely prolong life, we do not know whether to be amused or amazed...
...cannot be said that the undergraduate is entirely responsible for his attitude. So long an parents are content with the things their children are receiving at college, so long will the latter fail to desire anything else. Until intellectual achievement receives more than its present modicum of applause at the hands of the community at large, undergraduate interest will never transfer itself to this field. In this vicious circle, a break must be made somewhere...
...service of the Law School is that of method and cooperation, of standards and ideals. It does not supply brains or tact, or any substitute for either. It can give but a modicum of legal learning, less now, relatively, than ever. The law student sees at once, if he did not appreciate it before, that little has counted in his preparation but method and self-discipline...
Just so long as the teaching profession was every season flooded by hordes of college or normal school graduates, with only a modicum of experience and un-handicapped in most cases by family or dependents, so long was the teacher of more advanced standing held down to a state approaching penury. It was always simpler to replace with new material the teachers who could no longer make shift with the inadequate returns of the profession than it was to raise salaries...