Word: groundwork
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...leaves the compilation and preparatory work to the tutor deprives himself of the most essential part of the review. The bird's-eye view of a subject is of little value without the foundation, and when an examination question involves reasoning the lack of familiarity with the groundwork is fatal. That a thinking student should purposely deprive himself of the most essential part of his preparation and pay for the privilege is hardly rational...
...time these were thought more trustworthy than the Homeric poems. In these two poems the Trojans were famed, not the Greeks as in Homer, and the number of persons who were killed was estimated at 676,000 Trojans, and 886,000 Greeks. Shakespeare is said to have obtained the groundwork of his Troilus and Cresida from Dares' poem. In the fourteenth century the study of Homer was awakened by the students of the Byantine empire who flocked to Rome and Florence, and in 1488, the first edition of the original Greek appeared. In 1610 an English edition of Homer...
...Nelson 3, Hartridge 2, Herrick 1. Mr. Keyes has been coaching regularly. Last week the crew began to row a full stroke on the fixed seats for the first time. The motions on the machine are still made very slow and simple with the idea of getting the groundwork of the stroke as thoroughly as possible. At present they simply row a few strokes without bending the arms, then a few full ones, and occasionally simply go through the motions without the oars...
...those charges have been obliged to withdraw their statements, made, as they declare, through a mistaken idea of the circumstances. It seems almost impossible to believe that the entire body of Princeton students were so carried away by their imaginations as to formulate such bitter charges with absolutely no groundwork of fact. The whole incident is much to be regretted...
...belief which had already been entertained has been strengthened. Ideality in academic study, unselfish devotion to science for its own sake, and that unshackled activity of thought which is at once the condition and the consequence of such devotion, retire more and more into the background as the classical groundwork of our mental life found in the Gymnasium is withdrawn from the pre-university course. This is, to be sure, in the first instance, only a personal belief drawn from personal experience; but I will not omit to say that I have had abundant opportunity to discuss the subject with...