Word: thoughtful
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There are also a few from the other departments. It has been thought advisable for this classification to enroll them in the older departments. So those who are members of both Scientific and Graduate Schools are enrolled as Scientific students, and the Graduate School appears so much smaller. Of course, the academic graduate students are even in the Yale Catalogue enrolled only as graduate students. They do not appear in the "College" list...
...allows him to pursue the branches in which he is interested.- (2) He can avoid branches disagreeable to him.- (3) The presence of graduate workers acts as a constant incentive to him.- (4) He is stimulated by more sympathetic intercourse with his instructors.- (b) It leads to "Emancipation of Thought"; Educational Review, IV, 366; VII, 313 fg.; Graduates' Magazine II, 468.- (1) It tends to break down conventional dogma.- (2) It accustoms the student to think for himself.- (c) It increases the student's self-reliance and self-respect: Educational Review, VII, 26, 325; Graduates' Magazine, II, 468; Harvard Monthly...
...rank and file. Furthermore, a far worse failing, there is a strange neglect of voice training. In spite of the efforts of Mr. Hayes to cultivate the power of skilful voice modulation, of a forcible and graceful manner, few of the men here can force home their thought-material with the delivery which it deserves...
...present attainments is the only thing which can give us any prospect of continued success. The experience of the past few years indicates plainly the lines along which improvement must come. The fact that florid and pompous oratory is becoming more and more discredited shows that precision in thought, clearness and force in argument are becoming recognized as the chief objects in debate. The large possibilities for improvement in this direction must be admitted and no one, certainly, is better qualified to speak about them than Professor Baker...
...Roosevelt, as an old Harvard man, thought that he had a right to express an opinion on the subject and did so. Mr. Warner calls this muzzling the University. Apart from telling us that he has nothing to say of the significance of the Monroe Doctrine, the gist of Mr. Warner's argument is, that Mr. Roosevelt objects to any criticism of our government's conduct of our foreign affairs, as being disloyal. It is difficult to see how any man who has read Mr. Roosevelt's communication can find grounds for supporting such an assertion...