Word: warp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lays out the blank form, as it were, which the student will fill out as he goes along and with increasing understanding of scope and inter-relationship delves into the vast subjects of which the course gives him only the barest of glimpses. It affords the framework and warp into which all the rest of his college and postgraduate work and intellectual acquisitions of his after life may be built in and interwoven...
...English A--as Mr. Gavit states, it is handicapped by that name--is a course more elementary in that it is more fundamental. The vision that it can give, and the faculties that it can develop, make it a necessary preliminary to all study. "It affords the framework and warp into which all the rest of his college and postgraduate work and intellectual acquisitions of his after life may be built and interwoven...
...dangers in their path are evident. The examples they see among students are not always good for their tender years. With free access to many dormitory rooms, temptation is open to them, and there are frequent reports of petty thefts, not serious in themselves, but indicative of a warp in the boy's character that may result disastrously...