Word: contention
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot will give an address before the American Social Science Association, on "Content in Work," at 10.15 o'clock this morning in Huntington Hall. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tomorrow morning, at the same time and place, he will speak on "The Extension of Education to Adults: The General Nature of the Problem...
President Eliot's address on "Content in Work," announced yesterday, will be given Friday morning before the American Social Science Association. He will speak on Saturday morning on "The Extension of Education to Adults: The General Nature of the Problem...
President Eliot will give an address on "Content in Work," Saturday, before the American Social Science Association, in Huntington Hall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...business of a deliberative assembly which is sadly needed. A presiding officer who knows how business ought to be done, and tries to do it properly, meets anything but encouragement from the unparliamentary fashion in which business is presented. This tendency to let things slide--to rest content with results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts...
...moreover, is in decided contrast with the situation last year, when at this time the fundamentals of football had been thoroughly drilled into the men and the general development of the team was progressing favorably. Besides, last year, there were strong, able candidates for the eleven who were not content merely to go through the practice in a perfunctory manner but were trying hard every minute to perfect and put into execution what the coaches told them. It was in this way that they learned the game, and when it came to the test, their learning, gained at the expense...