Word: piled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton and Bacon, and Anglo-Saxon. If, at the end of his college career, he has not a complete knowledge of the earlier English writers, it is his own fault. He has built his structure of learning not upon a rock, but upon a whole rock-pile...
...supposedly serious-minded student, who hopes for a degree with distinction, is sentenced to years of hard labor on the rock-pile of the Middle Ages, before he can turn his energies to the building of his house. Even then he has only the heavy timber of the 18th century novelists, or the romantic poets, with which to raise his super structure. He very seldom gets far enough even to consider adding a roof. The natural question arises: what is the good of a house founded upon a rock, if there is no thatch of sufficient thickness to keep...
...pile of stray mail at University 4 the other day, lay a letter with a foreign stamp in the corner, addressed: "Monsieur J--R--, Belgian student, Harvard University, naer Boston." Somewhere in Belgique a country mam'selle, after struggling heroically to recall that strange address, "Cam----Camb" had given up the attempt, and, putting her faith in the God of Chance and the United States Post Office, had written what she could remember, "naer Boston...
...adviser is one of the most important points of contact, but too often has it in his power to pile up difficulties for a student by guiding him into courses for which he has no qualifications; it happens not infrequently that such advice has been the chief cause of a student's failure in his college work. The present arrangement ought to be changed to meet that drawback. A first step has been taken by providing students with advisers in their departments of concentration; that helps, although the student still often knows more about the courses outside (sometimes inside...
...earliest known implements of man are represented by the very complete groups from the river gravels of France and England, from the caves of France, and from the arid regions of northern Africa. Later developments of man in Europe are illustrated by important early collections of artifacts of the pile dwelling tribes of the Swiss Lakes and the dolman building people of northern and eastern Europe. The prehistoric cultures of America are especially well shown by remains from cemeteries, burial mounds, village sites, and the ruins of the wonderful cities of Mexico and Central America...