Word: owned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The too common idea of colleges as "hot-beds of Bolshevism" indicates a popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him...
But if the training is only fairly successful this year, it will still justify its continuance in 1920-21, when the mistakes of its first year can be righted. In an athletic system which embraces some six hundred undergraduates there are bound to be a few laggards and malcontents; there...
And this in spite of required English, which was put forward as a necessary study when the undergraduate was no longer compelled to give time to Latin and Greek. English alone, it seems, has not been enough to fit students for thorough knowledge of their own language.
Professor Southard's loss will be the more irreparable because of his unusual power to stimulate the productiveness and enthusiasm of those about him. He was able to communicate to others something of his own almost limitless energy. He has left behind him many organizations and groups of younger men...
"To teach students to think straight is the chief aim of colleges themselves. The institution which grasps this firmly will not be driven to interfere with academic freedom. Teachers cannot safely be forbidden to offer their own interpretation of facts, but they can and must be asked to make clear...