Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leading article Dr. Sargent argues well for medical supervision of athletics, and makes the suggestion that the "H" should perhaps be given to those men only who have all-round athletic ability. It would indeed be comforting to feel that your hammer-throwing specialist could at a pinch fill in creditably at baseball or hockey, or even turn a handspring upon a wager. Another serious article, by W. Lippmann, pleads for more robustness of interest, on the part of students, in American politics. By all means,--and in other matters too. "The Chinese Classics and Modern Research...
...student, whose selection of courses is more sensible than most persons are willing to believe. The students who will be affected are the ones who are pursuing specialties to the point of narrowness, and the loafers whose exploiting of the elective system leads to mastery of no subject. The specialist will be required to broaden out; the student in pursuit of "snap" courses will be required to concentrate. Both processes will tend to the same end--the turning out of well-rounded men, equally ready to enter on their life-work or to pursue their studies in a graduate school...
...means to that end. But there are many men not on the crew, and many pale faces are seen about college." The habit of proper exercise is not as general as it ought to be. We are too much in the habit of thinking that it takes a specialist to enter athletics. This is not so. "You have heard me say that I want to bring about a higher standard of scholarship at Harvard; I want to raise the standard of athletics as well as scholarship." For this reason dormitory rowing ought to be developed, because it encourages general exercise...
...collection of mementos bearing upon the John Harvard anniversary, which has been so carefully and conveniently arranged in Gore Hall, seems to have escaped the notice of many men who should have a real interest in them. Out collections are in many cases so large that none but the specialist cares to study them: but whenever objects of immediate interest are selected and grouped apart from the host of equally valuable articles, they deserve to be examined by those whose tastes would not induce them to seek out widely separate objects which, gathered together, are well worth their consideration...
Professor Dixon is a specialist on the economics of transportation, and is the author of "State Railroad Control" and numerous articles on transportation problems. The lecture will be open to the public...