Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Munsterberg does not believe, however, that American scholarship is "all that it ought to be." One reason for this belief offers itself at once: "In Germany the very idea of a university demands productive scholarship as the centre and primary interest of all university activity; in America it is an accessory element, a secondary factor, almost a luxury, which is tolerated but never demanded as a condition." This is because in America there is no sharp line drawn between university work and college work as is the case in Germany. The regular college work does not require and even...
...island has never been scientifically explored, and no botanist has ever been there, there is every reason for expecting good results. A large proportion of the materials gathered will go to enrich the collection in the University museum...
Davenport has a lame finger and he has done but little work for some time. For this reason it is difficult to estimate his ability. His lame finger may account for his weak batting...
...unnecessary length, but the story, which the old horse-car driver tells, is dramatic and abounds in well-drawn pictures. "Coward" is a railroad story with an exciting situation but the writer fails to make it very clear why the "coward" deserves to be called by that name. "A Reason for Secrecy" is a vague in its ending but it is a good bit of description. "Adelaide Maurice, 'Cure'," and "A Class Game" are two humorous stories, the former too impossible to be effective, the latter a very amusing story of a college practical joke...
...mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman Dinner" is live enough to read with more interest...