Word: scholar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese youth and what a convincing and enthusiastic demonstration it was. Besides all the events of an American track meet there were tournaments in volley ball, tennis, basketball, soccer and a cross-country run. The student, instead of being the old long-coated dignified and often tubercular scholar, stood revealed as the alert, energetic, quick and strong youth in his trim looking track suit, who had learned all the lessons of self-control, self-discipline and team play which China needs so much today. The four hundred odd entries from some twenty-five schools experienced the need for adequate training...
...object of the new requirements for this course, by inserting, in your admirable article entitled "The Reward of Virtue" the consession that it may now justly be a "cool oasis for upper group students? Is there any difference in the hard-earned sleep of the third or fourth group scholar and the weary rest of the sixth group athlete? R. L. HYATT...
...like all milleniums a system of education without grades is a thing to be approached and never attained. Ideals and ambitions differ; and certainly the follower of learning for learning's sake who hobbles along with four B's and a C, is in no position to criticise the scholar who finds satisfaction in being in Group I for the mere pleasure of leading. The trouble is that these two individuals with their differing points of view are subjected to the same mechanical system and to adapt themselves to this system they must abandon their individualism...
...serious grammatical blunder by an outstanding scholar...
...scholar, who knows that his standards are not the standards of the crowd, is concerned not with quantity but with quality, not with the mounting curve of statistics but with the spirit working in secret places, not with the piling up of buildings but with the transmission of living ideas." On the contrary, the American college President plays Martha to the exclusion of Mary...