Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Snobbery, of course, is only an annoyance. So are bed-bugs and boils; but normal people will take great pains to avoid them. The animal's organs adapt themselves to its environment, and kingship stands for the environment that produced snobbery. Once developed, the organ outlives its causes. There is your vermiform appendix, for example. So snobbery will outlive kings. Probably we shall have our society columns for a good while. But snobbery is on the declining hand. --SATURDAY EVENING POST...
...manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the like, (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during the schooldays of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates." Mr. Rhodes suggests that (2) and (3) should be decided in any school or college by the votes of fellow students, and (4) by the head of the school or college. Where circumstances render it impracticable to carry out the letter of these suggestions...
...student to give satisfaction to his college, from marriage, from resignation, or from any other cause, it will not be filled until the year in which it would naturally expire. Unless exempted, scholars will be expected: (1) to reside in college for at least two years; and (2) to take any degree for which they may have qualified...
...most important change in the curriculum is the substitution of a new course which will take the place of the introductory courses in modern history and in philosophy formerly required of all candidates for the degree. This new course will serve as an introduction to history, philosophy, economics, and government, and will be taught by a state of instructors drawn from those departments...
...stimulate thought; second, an opportunity for instructors to meet the undergraduates for discussion and an emphasis on a general grasp of the subject rather than a knowledge of details. The second factor the University has already grasped and acted upon; it remains to develop the first. This will take time. In the meanwhile it is deeply satisfactory to know that Harvard has seen beyond the immediate conditions of our country, and is working to establish those basic factors in a real democracy; spontaneity of action and of thought...