Word: thought
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arisen among undergraduates concentrating in the Division of History, Government and Economics,--Group III,--through misconstruing the purpose of the final general examination and the tutorial system. Feeling that the addition of a little extra work is a needlessly heavy burden, the undergraduate rebels without giving the matter any thought. To him it appears only that the Office is tampering with his proverbial freedom, forcing him to make a change in his standards--and his aversion to change is great, for he is a follower of custom...
...first of which developed about a week after the Christmas vacation. Three suspected cases are being held under observation, and a number of men who had been associating with them are reporting for daily examination. The source of the infection has not been definitely traced; but it is thought that three of the men contracted the disease while away from college and the others received it from them. All the patients have mild cases and no complications have ensued...
...with South America, especially in connection with business opportunities. Thus far, however, even with the new conditions created by the war, the tangible trade results have not been up to expectations. The reason seems to lie in a widespread ignorance of South American customs, business methods, and trend of thought...
...greater promise for the increase of breadth and influence than its growing cosmopolitanism. Not many years ago it was considered almost essential to the rounding out of a specialist in not a few departments that he complete his education abroad. In particular, training in the universities of Germany was thought indispensable. The new world was still going to school...
...effect of the war is expected to be the freeling of America from the intellectual domination of European scholarship. Another result should be an increased number of students in the universities of a land unhampered by the hardships of a reconstruction. All this means a wider influence for American thought; it should also mean a broader view for the American student toward the ideas of other races...