Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Likewise in college courses, the great majority of men whose minds are normally active and penetrating are content to accept, and retain momentarily a mass of detailed facts. They forget that the dates and rules required in courses are only means intended to train their minds for future constructive work. A student should not regard his courses as a mere acquisition of facts, but as a development and broadening of his mind...
...special examination, which will test the student's grasp of his chosen specific field. The candidate will be expected to show a thorough understanding of the subject of this field; knowledge of the content of the courses only will not suffice. The examination will be upon a subject, not upon a group of courses...
...recent years Harvard track teams have suffered from a notorious deficiency in the department of field events. Year after year a combination of sterling runners has been forced to content itself with a reputation of mediocrity in intercollegiate standing simply because of pitiable weakness in the field events. Curiously enough these five events require far less natural ability than is necessary to be a good runner. Faithful practice by a man of ordinary aptitude will in any one of these events lead to a degree of proficiency that will enable him to be of use to the team...
...philosophy of the teaching of Jesus as will be intellectually defensible and intelligible to a twentieth-century congregation. Having thus set forth the teaching and experience of Jesus, he then endeavors to apply it to the social, economic, moral and spiritual problems of his own day. He is not content with the expressions of moral and spiritual principle in the language or to the problems of a past generation, but he applies that principle directly to the vexed questions of the hour...
...should the prospective business or professional man be content to leave active politics to lawyers. Modern public life has in it many men who are not of the legal profession; politics profits by the participation of men of varied points of view. And as regards training, it may again be emphasized that not special subjects so much as a general grasp of life problems and the power to think are the requisites. Good work in almost any department will develop them...