Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...college teaching methods to see whether they really produce these traits. Of one thing we may be sure in advance: the fact-cramming method is sure to defeat our aim. Not only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect the College immediately to reform. In default of that, it behooves every Harvard man, even at the expense of his marks, to do a little original thinking of his own about the problems...
...tribute to the unity of our American character, and a mark of our American liberty, that when the national need should arise to swallow up all lesser needs, the true democracy of which we so often and too valiantly boast should return again not less strong nor less fine than it has been before in our history...
...blame Russia for an indifference to that war upon which she was the first to enter. She is going the road of political freedom in a few months, which other peoples have only passed after long centuries of struggle. It could not be otherwise than that immediate liberty should swallow up the desire for a more remote national liberty...
...human common-wealth. Suppose the latter is chosen. Then right is action towards this goal. And retaliation is right when and when only it carries man forward. Whenever self-assertion against a molestor only makes matters worse for the community, the injured individual ought to submit and swallow his humiliation cheerfully. Gradually it was realized that self-help tended rather to aggravate disorder and injustice, rather than to prevent it, and now we sanction self-help in only those few situations where it is more constructive than destructive...
...line-up follows: SECOND TEAM STONE Timpson,Scott,1.w 1.w.,Young Rice, furnace 1,c 1.c.,Brooks (capt), Kissel,r.w. r.w., Lidell Patterson Gazzam, r.c r.c., Maybury Appleton (capt), Wagner c.p., c. p., Landy Duncan Ginn,p. p.Knowles Liggett, g. g., Swallow Goal--Rice 3, Patterson 2,Appleton 3, Kissel 4, Gazzam 1, Patterson...