Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spring is the most delightful season of the year at Cambridge. He will see sunshine and the smiles of those who have no more curricular worries to keep them sad. And he will, probably, being a prince and a gentleman, never write his impressions of Harvard. So in a spirit of good fellowship and a liking for princes, especially in uniforms, one can hope that Saturday will be as happy for the prince as for those whom he visits...
...eight o'clock one of them discovered that the mist had entered the heaven of headquarters. And then they knew that the mist was a renascence of that spirit of learning so much a part of college life for policemen are, in a sense collegians. Both then drank ginger beer to the health of learning and smiled at each other over the checker board. Though seven people were shot in Dorchester and a bank in Squantum was robbed, each decided that the spirit of education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved...
Cannot something be done about this spirit-sapping parasite? Like a leech it clings to our educational system: why? no one knows. Final examinations are little more than comprehensive reviews of the amount of information a student receives in a given course, while they could be made to be objective and really useful...
...examination which would test the student's intelligence and ability to apply his knowledge is a product of the technical schools and certainly is a distinct improvement over the examination in use today in other lines of endeavor. Until examinations are given in such a spirit, until they become useful rather than artificial, until they serve as a test for understanding rather than the capacity to cram, they are one of the gravest defects in America's sieve-like educational system. Penn State Collegian. June...
...Princeton and elsewhere have protested in these late years of undergraduate self-assertion that religion is a personal matter, so the young ladies on their high hill at Poughkeepsie have stoutly insisted that each should be permitted to save her soul in her own way, and that the community spirit expressed by daily and weekly chapel gatherings could be expressed quite as well by academic convocations for lectures and general discussion. Last winter the undergraduates presented the trustees with resolutions to that effect (TIME, Oct. 19). Last week the resolutions, agreed on by undergraduate and faculty committees, were adopted...