Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaccuracy, which appeared on the day after the reporting of the midyear grades, would seem to justify one grade lacking in distinction...
...Having started our year with so progressive a platform as this (one involving humor, reviewer's note), we are humiliated to end it with the following confession. So far from having taught anything, we seem to have spent all our time learning things. (Reviewer questions this.) All sorts of things, such as that perhaps Prexy knows more than we do about the business of being Prexy, that the reading period is just as well off, maybe better with reading assignments, and that Radcliffe girls like to look that way. Further that a large majority of College Comic editors eventually commit...
...whether a college education was any help to a man choosing a theatrical career. Mr. Hodge did not seem so sure. "Of course," he admitted, "a man must master the English language, and college offers him that and other opportunities. But the greatest possibilities are in men themselves. I myself was born poor, have been one of the people and know and love them and that I think is the reason for my success...
...regular stages which practically all candidates pass through First there is the stage of discouragement, what might properly be termed the 'danger stage.' It usually comes after the first few days; the candidate has worked hard with small success, he is jostled and croweded by other candidates who always seem to have some unwonted advantage over him. It is during this period that most candidates drop out; those who persist despite its disappointments seldom fall to achieve their goal. Then a few weeks later comes what might he called the 'tried stage.' The candidate passes through a period of physical...
...program is that it is superficial. Psychologists can prove to their own satisfaction that a man's intelligence quota, his ability to deal with facts and situations is constant throughout life. With this in view, to ground him in facts, to give him tools with which to work, would seem the logical means of education. True, an intelligent tutor or stimulating lecturer can often awaken the dormant perceptive and critical faculties. But to let them play unconfined over impossibly wide fields of knowledge for several years, without any strict disciplining of the retentive powers, which are susceptible to improvement, appears...