Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not discuss ultimate purposes. In a society of temperate, industrious, unspeculative beavers, such a beaver-man would make an ideal King-beaver. But humans are different. People want Herbert Hoover to tell where, with his extraordinary abilities, he would lead them. He needs, it would seem, to undergo a spiritual crisis before he will satisfy as a popular leader...
...point of view, was totally at fault. The physician, after his long and arduous apprenticeship, receives high wages if he attains competence. The lawyer, the merchant, even the thief, is re- compensed for the lean years of his schooling by large profits in his prime. The clergyman, also, must undergo an intensive theological training before he receives a degree; afterward his education is still gradual and hard. Then, even if he has reached rare proficiency, his financial recognition is far less than that of an able dentist, is comparable to that of a high-grade mechanic...
...responsibility of education to scan the far horizon; it is the obligation of education, if need be, to undergo attack, to accept contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so. It is the function of education, when error is found, to denounce it; it is the privilege of education, when truth is found, to proclaim...
...nature of the way University Hall looks upon the Freshman has brought corresponding changes in the undergraduate relations with him. The segregation of the Freshman class in the river dormitories with a view of giving them what may be termed a class consciousness, a sentiment that is believed to undergo a renascence in the Senior year, has its weaknesses. One of them is that acclimatization comes slowly. There has been a corresponding growth in importance of the service rendered by the student advisory board...
...lists, which may undergo some minor revision, according to Ernest Perrin, coach of the production, include undergraduates of the College and Boston debutantes of this season and of past seasons...