Word: toward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...summer school will be held in Room 110, Pierce Hall, on Thursday afternoon from one to three o'clock. This course, which will be limited to about 100 men, is open to students in both the Engineering School and the College, and will count as one credit toward a degree...
...need to counsel with some one whom experience makes competent to give advice. It is not likely that his Faculty adviser will be available for more than hasty conferences on the mysteries of the course pamphlet. In addition, the Freshman is apt to have a feeling of awe toward professors in general which militates against the necessary frankness of his part...
...Senior to make the incoming man feel that he has a friend in the University with whom he can talk over the perplexing incidents of the new life to which he is becoming accustomed. The experience of the upperclassman is sure to prove invaluable in gulling the uninitiated toward a wise course in studies and other college activities...
...chief value of a college education lies, not in any specific facts the student may learn, but in a general wide development. College should teach men to face life, not merely a particular phase of life. But the trend of changes at other colleges is toward practical efficiency--it is essentially a part of that paternalistic Prussian atmosphere which pervades the country. The inauguraters of these changes seem not to care whether a man thinks, so long as he is a good cog in the machine of government...
...others to similar use, appears to be not unfounded. The books placed on the reference shelves are for general circulation, and it need hardly be pointed out that persons removing, for private use, books many of which are essential or highly important in preparation for examinations, are acting unfairly toward their fellow students. M. M. SMITH...