Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...types the disciplinary is most liable to misuse. Much has been said in recent years about humanizing colleges and humanizing administrative work and the same process should be applied to courses as well. For "humanization" in practice means little more than a greater reliance on the good faith of the student, and proportionately greater expectations from him. In elementary courses the coercive attitude serves as a bridge for the gap between school and college: but in more advanced work it tends to limit outside study...
...Tradition is a wonderful thing when you have it; but it can't be bought readymade". The Harvard Yard, which already has its share, is now going through the process of accumulating more...
...idea of creating an annual custom; and each year the plan has met with a more and more ready acceptance, until last spring there were so many applications that everyone could not be accomodated in the five designated buildings. The tradition has been built up, and in the process all the arguments have been exhausted--save that of success. The dormitories themselves have been restored, until it would seem that the only remaining objection is the persistent and premature college bell, which lingers tenaciously, the firmest of traditions, in the face of many campaigns to silence it. But even that...
...with his arrival there has been a tendency to take Coue more seriously--perhaps for the reason that he is famous but largely because the facts about him have become known. He was born of poor parents, worked his way through school and college, taking three degrees in the process; kept a drug store for fourteen years; and finally, through sheer hard work and force of character, made a career for himself hardly the story of an ignorant quack, or the ordinary doctor...
...text and interpretation may have been, we do not know; we do not want to know. We know only that the translators, to summon Coleridge, "first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive," linked itself to natural poetic felicity and power. The rest, the process of gestation, the travail and torment, we prefer to surmise. For the present translators are, as they ought to be, poets--fundamentally-and poets, even the more, that they could so brood over adopted progeny as to persuade at least a second paternity. When we consider the indelible Danish bias...