Word: student
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...professors as machines to shovel knowledge into his head. He forgets the human element. But if he glances back over the courses he has taken, he will realize that the ones he liked best were given by men he admired. The characteristics of the instructor impress themselves on a student's mind. From one he gets a touch of humor; from another a new and broadening outlook on the questions...
...sheer force of another's personality, he begins to believe that there must be something in what that other is teaching. The biggest men generally try to find out what one does know instead of what one does not know. Under such conditions it is a poor student indeed who does not respond to the stimulant...
...purpose of these committees is to supervise the student life in the Freshman Dormitories and to act as intermediary between the class and the College. Any complaints or suggestions regarding the dormitories or dining halls should be made to the Common Room Committee. One of their duties is to see that the Common Rooms are supplied with representative papers and magazines...
...hockey manager, and of Ambrose Ely Chambers '21, of New York, N. Y., as second assistant manager of the second hockey team. These appointments were made as a result of the competition which ended yesterday, and both appointments are subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee and the Student Council...
...University's in several particulars. Its foundation is specialization and prescription. Following the plan of the German universities, Yale proposes to begin specialization for professional service as early as the freshman year; while she prescribes the courses for her undergraduates on the ground that the faculty knows better a student's needs than the student himself. However, recognizing that men have different interests, she allows the undergraduate to choose one from several prescribed systems of courses. This system which considers an undergraduate too inexperienced to elect his own courses, yet experienced enough to determine the all important question...