Word: solids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most progressive universities in the country. And not alone in athletics. In scholarship also she--"she," for like excursion boats, colleges are feminine--she has distinguished herself by recognition of the long neglected subject of business. As compared with Latin, Greek, the Renaissance and plane (not solid) ornithology, the study of business is a tender plant, and must be watered if it is not to perish in all but a few enthusiastic garrets. The President, and good fellows, and overseers and superintendents and foremen of Harvard were wise to see this obscure condition clearly, and courageous to remedy...
...then, do not the colleges renounce the impossible and start anew on more solid ground? Implicit in the democratic idea is found a redeeming paradox in numbers. American colleges throw open to every youth a real equality of opportunity to carry his own development to the highest point of which he is capable. And so far as American colleges provide sufficient elasticity in their systems--a striking tendency of the last few years; so far as they take care in this way not to superimpose upon the exceptional student an equality of condition with the majority: just so far will...
...Freshmen also made a good showing yesterday, taking the first four places in solid formation in their run against the Dartmouth 1929 aggregation...
...note he wrote that the works are presented to the library of the University of Cambridge in New England as a mark of deep interest in its high literary character, and in the successful zeal it has displayed through so long a course of years for the promotion of solid and elegant education...
...with tangible benefits conferred by a college degree, prompted his coming to Harvard. But once he is within the gates, the tangible vanishes. He deals with the subtle and elusive powers of mind and spirit, and in his uncertainty the definite requirements for examinations at least give him something solid to grasp. It is not strange, therefore, that he should mistake examinations, intended as a means to an end, as the ends themselves of education...