Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters as efficiency, genius, reconstruction, bolshevism, and what...
...when Massachusetts Hall was built, the graduating class of the college numbered 37, Cambridge was only a village, and there was no bridge to connect it with the town of Boston. The only college building in the Unitd States which is older than Massachusetts Hall is the main building of William and Mary College in Virginia, which was put up in 1693 and has been thrice burned and rebuilt on the old walls...
This afternoon Harvard and Yale will play their 40th annual football match. It will refresh the memories of older graduates to look back over the scores of those years and it will make undergraduates who did not see or read of those games realize that in that long stretch of years Yale has displayed an almost astounding superiority...
...college enters or rather continues in an artificial environment. He becomes engrossed in student activities which have about as much connection with the real world as a wart on the end of the nose has with vision. The average college man defers and temporarily sacrifices that association with older people and that intimate contact with concrete issues which are absolutely essential in making a man out of boy stuff. He would be spared much of delay could he have a clear understanding of his peculiar limitations before he enters the real world where he is to live...
...pure science and history have little immediate use in business and therefore for the untrained man the transition from college to business is difficult and discouraging. Schools of theology, medicine and law have been well established for many years. These schools break down the transition from college to the older professions, but until very recently no effective method of training the college men for business has existed...