Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nevertheless deserving of due respect. But what shall be said of the slackers, and it is to be feared that they are not lacking even in our colleges, who oppose military training because of a deficient sense of obligation for their country's needs? These are the men who think less of what they can give to their country than of what they can get out of their country; who, while claiming all the ample privileges and protection accorded by the American government to its citizens, prefer to think that their duties end with the payment of a certain amount...
...opinions and positive expression, he was a kindly spirit, hospitable, generous, appreciative of others. His mental energy seemed limitless, his industry tireless, his optimism unquenchable. He exemplified his own ideal of productive scholarship, and carried to the grave with him plans for more books than most of us would think of achieving in a lifetime
...think the College is, first, a place to study...
Senator Horr, in an address to Harvard students, remarked that in his judgement, the men who succeeded best in life are the men who have made the best use of their spare time in college. You can probably think in a moment's time of several men in college who are contributing largely to their alma mater in the form of personal, unselfish service. They are not men of distinguished talents or of remarkable native ability, and yet they manage to turn out a great volume of work. You wonder how they do it. The simple truth is that they...
Many short-sighted college students console themselves for the lack of industry on their determination to labor conscientiously, once they enter the professional school. There is no greater fallacy than the one that leads us to think that it is safer to loaf in college than to loaf in a professional school. The young lawyer who has neglected the law may make up his deficiencies in the early years of his practice--"he will have plenty of time then." But there is no recovery of the years thrown away at college...