Word: manifestation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pride and the knowledge that many friends know them to be capable of much better work, would combine to make these men exert their best efforts. Such conditions apply to the average undergraduate, and hence there is little doubt that the institution of the projected idea would immediately manifest itself in a much higher average mark. That, then, is the great justification for the proposed move: it will tend to induce every man to do his best in scholarship, as most are at present doing in outside affairs to the detriment of deserved academic credit. This argument in favor...
...much work upon subjects. One may welcome Mr. Ware's ideal of undergraduate activity--that the maturer graduates should be treated with the respect they really deserve, and by pointing attention to things worth doing to arouse in them the intelligent interest which they are ready to manifest. This might, as the writer suggests, be afforded in the later years of undergraduate life by leading them to concentrate upon practical questions of real difficulty...