Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Eliot and Thayer Clubs today is the day of days. The "championship of the river" for their respective type of shell is no mean thing. Beyond the Locker Room at Newell these races may be regarded as wasted energy. More gifted roommates may have found it difficult to understand the "training" for such events. But to the man with the sweep the crowds on Harvard Bridge will be there to see his race, even though railway construction in reality accounts for the uninterested onlookers...
After forty years of untiring service in a field of vital importance, the promotion of health and strength in thousands of students, Dr. Sargent announces his intention to retire from the active direction of the Hemenway Gymnasium. It is easy to understand Dr. Sargent's desire to be relieved after a lifetime of devoted work, but it is difficult to be reconciled to his going. To every student who has come in contact with him, Dr. Sargent is as real and genial a friend as he is a helpful physical advisor. Outside the limits of Cambridge Dr. Sargent is almost...
...doubt this foreign criticism is exaggerated; the foreigner fails to see any differences because he does not understand us; he see us as a people, not as individuals. Yet, when we examine his statements we find much truth in them. And paramount among the explanations which we can offer for the dearth of individualism in the United States stands our educational system, with its emphasis on the average student. Our colleges seem altogether to encourage a dead-leveling process, which stifles great individual attainment...
...mysterious, dewy, curiously suggesting tones of Wordsworth and Keats, and Mr. Chambers, in the Sinn Fein, frankly swinging into Kipling's virile stride to tell how men may cheer and die, not only have something to say but show that they love music of word and of line and understand the beauty of form. Miss Campbell strives honorably but is not so successful: not even the exigencies of rhyme can justify the momentary shifting to the "plain language" of Friends--and poets...
There has been a feeling prevalent in the University that the intricacies of the system of concentration and distribution are not sufficiently clear to Freshmen, and that the average man does not begin to understand them before the end of his Sophomore or the beginning of his Junior year. This feeling has come to a head in recent discussions in the Student Council. From these it appears that many men find that they are taking courses which are of no value to them or even concentrating in fields in which they have no interest. They see their advisers probably...