Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice Wednesday afternoon Coach Wachter kept to his policy of giving a thorough grounding in fundamentals and as a result the basketball candidates were sent through only elementary work in handling the ball passing, and shooting...
There may be objections to the plan advocated above but they can be met, and it is certain that the student body will not be satisfied with anything except a thorough reorganization of the seating arrangements next year. Financial considerations of the Athletic Association may outweigh the need for solidarity of Harvard supporters, and dictate that they must sell a number of season tickets to those who dwell nearby but who have nom connection with University and no sympathy with its supporters. If this is true a season ticket, at the same price as a season ticket restricted to Harvard...
...attitude of the School toward schouarship, Dean Donham said, is to see that the student not only gets the information given out in the various courses but gets it in a thorough and satisfactory...
...most cases, the President. But with the growth of universities and the expansion of their financial interests, his combined position of head master and business manager has become too exacting. The University of Pennsylvania feeling that the task was too great to be administered with thorough efficiency by a single person, no matter how great his capabilities, decided to separate entirely the financial and educational branches...
This sounds like a trivial point of view. As a matter of fact it is nothing of the sort. A thorough knowledge of literature, for instance, will give one a smattering of philosophy and history, and at least a sense of the importance of physics or chemistry--all that is necessary. In these days of specialization the educated man is no longer a Leonardo de Vinci who is an expert in half a dozen professions; in fact he may be notably ignorant of everything except his own line, and still be educated...