Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Even a camp under the supervision of the University, but conducted by army officers, might be arranged. Whether this part of the program worked out successfully or not is of small consequence. The important fact is that a four years study of military history and modern warfare as a background, with concentration in some particular field such as transportation, explosives, or finance, would turn out a group of military specialists. These men would prove invaluable to the country in time of war. The proof of this is England's condition today. One of her chief difficulties is a lack...
...vital to the success of the white "H", of waving handkerchiefs on the background of red that every man provide himself with a handkerchief of the correct color for tomorrow's game at Princeton. The tickets have been stamped stating the color of the handkerchief to go with each seat and for further assurance that every man has the properly colored handkerchief, the accompanying diagram is printed...
...large hall, to be given to the display of the Romanesque arts. Beyond this is a small chapel, where the distinctly Gothic work will be placed; and in the wing at the left is the Rennaissance Hall, where work of the German Rennaissance can be displayed against an appropriate background. The intersection of the two unequal wings is marked by a massive tower, that dominates the entire group and is the most striking decorative feature of its external design. The rectangle between the two wings is to be developed as an ornamental courtyard enclosed by a garden wall, with cloister...
...explanation is probably not that the student has no philosophy, but that he comes to college with an unconscious philosophy so tenacious that the four years of the college in its present technique can do little to disintegrate it. The cultural background of the well-to-do American home with its 'nice' people its amiable religiosity and vague moral optimism, is far more alien to the stern secular realism of modern university teaching that most people are willing to admit. The college world would find itself less frustrated by the undergraduate's secret hostility if it would more frankly recognize...
...undergraduate can scarcely be blamed for responding to a system which so strongly resembles his sports, or for bending his energies to playing the game right, rather than assimilating the intellectual background of his teachers. So strongly has this sporting technique been acquired by the college that even when the undergraduate lacks the sporting instinct and does become interested in ideas, he is apt to find that he has only drawn attention to his own precocity and won amused notice rather than respect. In spite of desire of instructors to get themselves over to the students, in spite of real...