Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taken onto the Faculty of the University when they are too old to have that progressive spirit which is the foundation of healthy radicalism. This means that the institution becomes over-conservative," a deadweight .... around the necks of the American people." The student life also tends towards this ultra stand-patism. The sons of rich and influential families are too important in proportion to their innate worth...
...sickness or other causes not affecting their good character, or men whose worth has been attested by their professors. These clauses are generally understood to mean that it exercises a right of selection according to a man's character and all-round ability from say the sixty-five high stand men in the class. It is understood to elect men somewhat on a basis of character when as a matter of fact it elects them on an almost absolute basis of scholarship--marks being in the long runs, the best indication of scholarship. Consequently the general opinion is often that...
...merit by Messrs. Willcox, Sanger, Barlow, Whistler, and Murdock; an article on "Harvard and the Public Eye," by Mr. K. B. Murdock; and pieces of fiction by Messrs. J. W. Walcott, O. D. Douglas, and H. Jackson, Jr. In "Harvard and the Public Eye," Mr. Murdock, who seems to stand in great awe of the "Century"--he calls it the 'majestic' "Century"--points out the futility of trying to arrive at general conclusions about Harvard, unless one knows Harvard life thoroughly. In "The Treasure of Carvaernon" (the name in the story itself is spelled Carvaeron), Mr. Walcott gives...
...revolutionary but unsound. For, even granted that in his three years' competition for and conduct of a managership, every manager must devote more time, energy, and ability to his work than is required in many a half-course of college work, the fact still remains that as things now stand; the work of managership cannot receive scholastic recognition, and must in a sense be its own reward. Valuable it undoubtedly is for "efficiency for after life," and the suggestion to catalogue "Football Managership A" along with "Public Finance B" is tempting. But the same thing could be said...
...Skinner's article on Belloc, which deserved emphasis because of its clear method and definite thought, one notes its greater freedom from petty vices of alliteration, involved figures, and appositional clauses such as mar the style especially of Mr. Moyse Would that the Monthly, as representative of Harvard might stand for truth to life and good sense, as in the work of Mr. Nathan and Mr. Hillyer; for greater simplicity and directness in language as in the prose of Mr. Skinner...