Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balls with two triples and a double. Bigelow made a creditable debut in the last four innings by holding Tufts to three hits and one run. Behind the pitchers the Crimson players put up a first class defense, a slight misplay by Owen being the only check to perfect fielding...
...student in the University of Washington whose education until a year ago was confined to the seventh grade of an Irish grammar school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service men who took this examination during the war period. Some of the words whose meaning...
...almost safe to say that the average college student could not give the meaning of more than one of the four words above listed. It is perfectly safe to say that during this man's first year at the university he did not acquire all of the knowledge necessary to make a perfect score on such an examination. He succeeded in coming out ahead of the three million other contestants because he made the best of the opportunities at hand though he had not the opportunity to attend college...
...United States we are told, comes far from measuring up to this standard. We have no great literature such as a Shakespeare or a Voltaire or a Homer might have written. Of the great men who are "high and perfect types of humanity" Dr. Hung-Ming speaks little, and then only to dismiss Washington from the roll-call of the great by characterizing him a good average...
...Hung-Ming maintains that before the "high and perfect types of humanity" can come to any great degree, there must first be the spiritual force to mould the types. At a time when many "candidates for the degree" are coming out of their last examinations saying. "Thank Heaven, I don't have to study any more", it seems somewhat of a question whence that spiritual force is coming. It will hardly come from the universities if we hold to the notion that education ends at Commencement--that from then on theoretical learning is to be replaced by practical learning. Those...