Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoroughly appropriate place for memorial tablets, possibly also for a collection of war relics. The whole building designed for the more dignified occasions of University gathering would surely be a much more suitable memorial than a gymnasium, which would always carry with it the suggestion of daily rub and shower and might easily become a worn out and obsolete, if not offensive building in a few years...
...work of other departments. Moreover if attendance upon gymnastics or athletics were compulsory, participation in these exercises should be required, and if required, credit should be given for the effort made, the work done, and the results attained. Otherwise attendance would be a farce. Here is the rub, and when the proposition is made, we are met with the query: "would you have gymnastics and athletics ranked on the same scale as Latin or Greek or any other academic subject"? If not what becomes of the elective system? If students were allowed to substitute a physical course--so called...
Learn this, and although failing in all manner of bookish wisdom, your college education will not have been in vain, for you will have learned to rub elbows with the broad, infinitely varied outside world...
...cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations that always acted precipitately would save themselves much intellectual effort. But rather than have a mere "decision by speculation" in the railroad strike, Mr. Paine prefers what we had, namely...
...camps such as these is made obligatory for the young men of the nation, when the farmer's boy and the banker's boy, the son of the brakeman or mill worker and the son of the manufacturer or railroad president, the college boy and the public schoolboy rub shoulders together in military training, share the same dog-tents and recognize the equality of obligation that rests upon them all, the fibre of democracy in this country will have been immeasurably strengthened...