Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most notable feature of the character of the undergraduate is his instinct to conform, to think and act as his fellows think and act. If probation were looked upon as a disgrace, and if a little healthy missionary work were done by classmates--in other words, if undergraduates realized some responsibility for their fellows--the sinking probationer would more often make an effective effort to reform his ways. It may sound extreme to say so, but the fact is that probation in Harvard College is no more of a punishment to a student than an indictment...
...have taken courses in the University beyond the necessarily irksome one dealing with Xenophon's daily progress know that the human and literary side of the classics form the greatest part of the interest of the instructor. It is, however, true that most men have not the time, or think they have not the time, to study the classics in the original language. There is a course on Greek tragedy for upper-classmen conducted in English. The classical field is briefly treated, as necessitated by the scope of the course, in Comparative Literature 1. Why cannot an entire course...
...whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault is in the student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think of methods of teaching which shelve the present for the past, and of professors who imagine they are teaching history when four-fifths of their students do not know whether Winston Churchill or von Bethmann-Hollweg is Prime Minister of England?"--The New Republic...
Harvard, steeped as it is in this much-extolled, much-blackened New England tradition, can afford to welcome a few men of openly radical views. Nothing makes a man think for himself more than to be shocked by the expression of some extreme opinion. If a college education can do no more, it can stir up a man's brain cells. The prevailing type of undergraduate, contrary to the supposed condition of youth, is too stand, too conservative, to be carried away by the expression of radical ideas. Should a fortunate student be accidentally bumped from his daily rut, panic...
...mention is by the Harvard professor who is generally recognized as the Dean of American students of English, Professor Kittredge. His six lectures on Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose...