Word: skim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialized training for a job has certain advantages. It teaches a man to do one thing efficiently and to stick to it. Here at College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...