Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...said, fail at some time or other. Do you wish him to be one of the kind that knowing the percentage sits down and folds his hands or do you wish him to be accustomed to facing hard knocks and disappointments and overcoming them? I don't say football is the only sport that teaches this, but I do say it helps...
...loss of men by graduation makes it dice to say, at this early date, anything definite as to Yale's possible chances for the coming track season. Men will have to be developed to take the places of Captain Wagoner, of last year's team, who tied for second place in the pole-vault in the intercollegiate; Pickett, in the hammer-throw, and Morris, in the mile-all of whom were sure point winners...
With due respect to the economists who insist that the task, under free competition, will fall to the most efficient and that such a result should be welcomed rather than deplored, we are impelled to say something in regard to the marketing of tutorial talent at this season of the year. Granted that organizations external to the student body now control most of the tutoring field because of superiority over the Employment Office, is the condition a desirable...
...Freshman year. Before this time he is required to select his field for concentration. A priori, we may assume that he knows nothing of economics, for no student in his first year may take Economics A without special permission from the instructor. Obviously no one can wisely say whether he cares to make an advanced study of any subject when he has mastered little more than its rudiments. This fact is recognized by those who administer the elective system, for no student is denied the privilege of changing his field for concentration, unless it is suspected that he is trying...
...administration. It may be objected that many students would not acquire as complete a knowledge of some one subject, but it is generally conceded, I think that the chief purpose of a college education is population of mental power on the part of the student. It is platitudinous to say that nothing that one learns in college is of direct use in after life. Knowledge is a means, not an end. Whether that knowledge be concentrated or diversified is of little consequence so long as it is profound enough to give the desired mental power. ALFRED WALTER...