Word: precept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Order", that famous precept which swept Calvin Coolidge from the office of a well-known politician to the vice-presidency of a great world power, is tottering on the edge of a precipice. When the edict was first issued from beneath the golden dome on Beacon Hill the populace rose as one man to back up their popular leader; and for nearly three years "Law and Order" has been a sort of sub-motto for the Commonwealth...
President Lowell's report offers an abundance of food for thought. His remarks on educational methods, while less startling than other topics, offer some sound suggestions. Concretely, they are a defence of the old method of teaching by problem rather than by precept. "We learn to do by doing," he says. A degree of self-service in education is often of far more value than an equivalent amount of forcible feeding. The course in which a student must work out the answers to questions for himself, instead of learning the answers by rote, has many advantages: it is an agreeable...
...hour of English study, expect its students to aim at the ideal of pure speech? College and student are both at fault, and if the ability to speak reputably is a vital part of the well-educated man, then correct speech for its own sake must be emphasized in precept by the college, and in practice by the undergraduates. --Williams Record
...admirable; but when the tenant is not in, it is wasted welcome. The turning of a key is not a difficult task, the carrying of the key is not a heavy burden either for memory or for pocket. Much difficulty can be avoided if students will follow the simple precept of locking doors and ground floor windows when they go out. Furthermore all suspicious individuals should be reported at once; and if any losses are discovered, no delay should be made in notifying police head quarters. Only by cooperation of all can the evil be eliminated...
...having lingered over the May issue of the Advocate, the though comes that it is genuine, full of good literary endeavor and free from affectation. To find the subject matter bounded by the good taste that begins with simplicity and ends with an observance of the precept of Horace...