Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very best teachers that you have known, are not versed primarily in the science of education. Some of the very best scholars with whom you have come in contact here at Harvard, may have impressed you as men not peculiarly gifted as teachers. The art of teaching is a thing by itself. I, myself, find difficulty in understanding from what it springs. Surely, through it must be moving that sign of perception that leads the teacher to understand that which is working in the mind of the pupil. It involves the appreciation of human nature that keeps one of older...
...great advantage in keeping boys dependent. I realize that the work of the teachers is to make boys independent of them as rapidly as possible, to withdraw themselves just as rapidly as possible from their lives, that they may stand alone and stand strong. Nevertheless, it is a pleasant thing in the secondary school to have these young chaps about you, to feel that you are their leader, and that you can influence and direct them along the right lines...
...races and in track meets we have come nearer to the true amateur spirit in this particular by depriving coaches of the right to be near their men in competition. In football and baseball the professional aspect stands out more strongly in this instance than in any other one thing. Professional coaching by the best men available is an acknowledged necessity for success in present-day sports, nor is it at all incompatible with the spirit of amateur competition. But let the coaching be confined to its proper time and place, and when a team is once started...
...involuntary and voluntary. Over the former we have no control, but before the food passes the "guillotine line" we are responsible for what we eat. Therefore we should let the appetite have free control, but great care should be taken not to exceed the appetite. Overeating is the worst thing possible for perfect digestion...
...worst thing about the Student Council is that the undergraduates who elected it have shown no respect for their own handiwork. The requests that men shall not cut on the days of games have been ignored by 1215 men in the last three Saturdays...