Word: useful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...observed: Group I--Where the applicant is to occupy one of the seats. This group includes, first, those who apply for one seat alone, who will be seated in the cheering section, and secondly, those who apply for two seats. Group II--Where the tickets are not for personal use. This group contains applications for both one and two seats...
...use to be made of Memorial Hall in connection with the Inauguration of the President, will necessitate the closing of the dining hall today. Members of Memorial Hall will be served table d'hote meals at Randall Hall; the service of meals in the latter hall will be continuous from...
...inclined to lay too much stress upon knowledge alone? Taken by itself it is a part, and not the most vital part, of education. Surely the essence of a liberal education consists in an attitude of mind, a familiarity with methods of thought, an ability to use information, rather than a memory stocked with facts, however valuable such a storehouse may be. In his farewell address to the alumni of Dartmouth President Tucker remarked that "the college is in the educational system to represent the spirit of amateur scholarship. College students are amateurs, not professionals." Or, as President Hadley...
...their views are of course based largely upon experience. Our Law School lays great stress upon native ability and scholarly aptitude, and comparatively little upon the particular branches of learning a student has pursued in college. Any young man who has brains, and has learned to use them, can master the law, whatever his intellectual interests may have been; and the same thing is true of the curriculum in the Divinity School. Many professors of medicine, on the other hand, feel strongly that a student should enter their school with at least a rudimentary knowledge of those sciences, like chemistry...
...use to be made of Memorial Hall in connection with the Inauguration of the President tomorrow, will necessitate the closing of the dining hall at the dinner hour today and during the entire day tomorrow. Arrangements have been made whereby members of Memorial Hall will be served table d'hote meals at Randall Hall during this day. In order to accommodate the larger demand upon the facilities of Randall Hall, the service of meals in the latter hall will be continuous from...