Word: amassed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only commend Mr. Hack's opinions. The tendency to cram for examinations, to haggle over marks, to amass information relative to nothing other than the mer possession of it, are all symptoms of an educational disease that this writer sees clearly. But whether we agree with Mr. Hack's constructive ideas or not, it is great relief to find in his work a fearless bidding to Mr. Flexner and his opponents to stop their howling. The world is tired of fighting over terms. If there are faults with modern education, negative criticism alone will not go far toward curing them...
...opportunities in journalism, they are boundless. Any man, no matter what his profession, would be the gainer by two or three years' devoted service as a newspaper reporter. The experience he would amass, in quick thinking, in the power of swift and direct expression, in knowledge of men and affairs, he would find invaluable. Often, after a few years of work, a reporter, thrown into contact with lawyers or doctors or scientists or business men, discovers in himself an unsuspected aptitude for one of these other pursuits, and leaves his first choice for the new. But he carries with...
...exterior influences can create it from the underlying stratum, it is likewise true that it can be unmade and made again by similar agencies. The love of money, with some a second nature, is but the evolution of the principle of first nature that influences man to acquire and amass...