Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
...them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose all power of self-starting merely through lack of either the opportunity or the incentive to develop that power...
...Republican Governor, big Lewis O. Barrows, waved aside a turkey he was to have carved at a formal banquet, gobbled: "You wouldn't eat oysters in July. . . .* You wouldn't eat a turkey on November 23." Forthwith he whipped from his pocket a can of sardines, self-consciously ate them...
Socially, Indian Moslems are a solid, self-conscious minority group (just less than one-fourth of India's population) ; Hindus are a loosely-bound, sect-split, caste-stratified majority (three-fourths...
...margin of a point after touchdown (knowing nothing better to do, they passed). Then they licked a CCC team at Camp Goldendale. Wash. Last fortnight, having topped off their five-game season with a six-touchdown victory, they became, to the consternation of President Keezer and every self-respecting alumnus, one of the few unbeaten, untied college football teams...