Word: learning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...there any valid reason why they should not. There can be little benefit to the man who has not done a reasonable amount of work during the semester, for certainly he cannot learn an entire half-course in four hours. If he can there is something wrong with the course, or with the examination. But for those who have regularly followed daily assignments, tutoring offers a perfectly legitimate way of saving time, scarce enough during the examination period, which may be devoted to subjects of greater interest, or of greater importance in a field of concentration. Those professors who most...
...flat-top desk a lithe, slender man with a well-shaped forehead, soft brownish hair, touched with grey at the sides, deep brown eyes of an almost feminine softness. Behind him, wide windows open on McPherson Square. A serene calm fills the office. A stranger would be surprised to learn that this man before him is 55, for he does not look over 40. There is a youthful slightness about him. a trimness of figure that makes it hard to believe that he could have been old enough to serve as an officer in the Spanish War. Today he looks...
...asserts, "I am Lilybet the P'incess!" No one else except the Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave...
...more than any warning could, and it is not always the inferior student who needs this help from above. And lastly punishment has from time immemorial been an influence on the lives of men. There will always be a certain class in all social and intellectual strata which can learn only by punishment. For this class it is difficult to see what will take the place of probation...
...nations of the world still want to dance to martial airs but don't want to pay the fiddler; must they needs have one more lesson--another Great War? From this Humanity would surely learn, but the price to the survivors would be dear...