Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assistant should be interested in his work as assistant, and too many of them are not. One of the secrets of teaching is to inspire and arouse the interest of the students; this is as much the assistant's job as it is the professor's because it is with the former, generally, with whom the student comes in closer contact...
...underlying causes of this decrease in interest. The most important is that men are beginning to feel the reward is not worth the effort, and of as importance, that the reward means very little more than a title in the long run. Connecting this decrease in extra curricular work and the increased number of men graduating with scholastic honors the general trend becomes obvious...
...will be well if those in charge of future elections have seen these smiles and realize that they express a somewhat tolerant amusement which is far more dangerous to an organization's prestige than any more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
...that Harvard needed out of 38 separate early Milton's which were among the important features in Mr. White's collection. By making the Harvard Milton collection just so much nearer perfection, scholars who need to use these books will find it as much easier to perfect their own work Similarly, three volumes have been added to the collection of John Donne's poems and sermons, which has been one of the features of the Harvard Library ever since the gift of Professor Charles Eliot Norton's library. One of these came from Mr. White's library, and two from...
...number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor Sachs gave his collection of the work of Bruce Rogers, that Typography was recognized as a distinct subject for which the library ought to provide a place. Mr. Hofer's gift now makes it certain that the Harvard collection of finely printed books will be easily equal to that of any other institution. The recognition of Printing...