Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grind, no athletics, no dramatics, no musical or glee clubs, no periodicals, no rallies, none practically of the extra-curricular activities which play so big a part in the college life of our country. The lycee and gymnasium are emphatically places of intellectual discipline, of preparation for the serious activities of life. It is needless for me to say how different this is from the American college. I think it is too intellectualized and neglects much of the emotional and spiritual aspects of life. But it does give a thoroughness and accuracy or knowledge which our young people so often...
...college graduate especially in a time like the present when faith in democracy as a form of political organization is apparently waning, not in dictator governed countries like Italy, Spain, Greece and Russia, but apparently in our own country. However, this desideratum will not be attained until a more serious spirit animates the life of the college and more generous attention is given to the serious problems of the political, social and economic organization of society...
...hard to see why, if a European young man or woman can begin their professional and technical, education at 18 a young American couldn't at 20. If this were done and the larger and more juvenile element thereby removed, in all probability a far more serious spirit and attitude would pervade the young men and women of the Junior and Senior classes. Those classes could then be organized in preparation for the research work of the graduate courses. One of the reasons why graduate students in an American university are so much more closely supervised and guided in their...
...college is at present fulfilling this demand. Dr. Meiklejohn says not at all. That is a dangerous generalization for it infers a uniformity in methods which does not exist. Probably there has never been a time when a greater variety of experiments were being conducted or suggested by serious men. The very existence of such experiments, it is true, indicates widespread dissatisfaction with traditional systems, whether belonging to individual colleges or heretofore generally accepted. But, after all, all these things are signs of health; not sickness, in the educational world. When men of broad and daring vision, like Dr. Meiklejohn...
...severe was the cold that several members of the party were forced to turn back because of serious frost bites. Those climbers who ultimately reached the top suffered great hardship...