Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very well to try to win and to try hard, and it is well for every member of the University to be normally enthusiastic for the team's success. But should we go so far as to make the cheering a rather hysterical and often unfair attempt to compel victory, rather than a recognition of good playing by the teams...
...that constant sport turns a man from his studies is equally absurd. If a man wants to study, there is plenty of time to do so; and if he doesn't wish to study more than the minimum required, no restriction of the kind that this rule enforces will compel him, or even incline him, to study more. There is plenty of time for a man to play on three University teams and get a degree "cum laude." It is merely a personal matter...
...Inasmuch as the concert-givers are still students it would be hypercritical and unjust as well, to apply the more on less inflexible professional standard to their performance or to their original compositions. Yet in many respects both were of so high and thorough-going a standard as to compel both admiration and astonishment...
...advantage of the free elective system is that it allows adequate room for the individual interest. This depends upon the psychological law that action varies as interest. A student will reap no benefits from a study unless he is to a certain degree interested in it. The attempt to compel a man to apply himself to subjects in which he has no interest does not result in any aggressive intellectual effort...
...upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study and compel the student to take it. It is only when a student neglects some wide field of study that he can be called guilty of narrowness of choice; and an examination of the programs of students in elective colleges will show that they are not prone to such narrowness. Moreover...