Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more attention to his books. That is, to increase his desire to learn; stimulate his curiosity and his ambition and make him conscious of his mental inferiority. Why do undergraduates slave and work over their extra-curriculum activities? Because they make a direct appeal to ambition and pride. The thought that they may derive great good from these activities does not generally enter a student's head until long after he has graduated from college. Every undergraduate activity that is worth while has to be bought at the price of a long and strenuous competition. This competition is what lifts...
Dean, Yeomans sailed last February to take up the position of Assistant Director of the American University Union in Paris, which post he has since occupied. At the time of his departure for France, the duration of his leave of absence had not been definitely determined, but it was thought probable that he would return by the end of the summer. Whether the Dean will be here at the beginning of the second term in February to resume his duties at the University, the College Office is not as yet able...
...University work successfully. He cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject, for say fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon the subject? Its very purpose would indicate that it may not be the simplest subject, but still it seems...
...first thought which strikes one in connection with the ruinous telephone tie-up which began yesterday morning is, of course, that the strike must be ended, quickly, and at almost any cost. The fault of the situation seems to lie for the most part in the endless "red tape" and departmental ritual of the Post Office Department. The patient and fairly moderate demands of the operators for an inquiry on the part of some thoroughly impartial tribunal were repeatedly held up, and delayed, and referred on. Mr. Burleson has admitted that there is justice in their demands, but does...
...deal with. By 'unworthy' plays I mean the type commonly known as what the public wants,' but which it really does not want at all. The frivolous, plotless play has been largely brought on by the war, under the excuse of giving people something they can follow without thought or effort; but in such light productions, the mind is much more liable to stray back to its original trouble instead of being directed in another channel. A play of depth, tangibly constructed, is of far more value to the tired mind than such nonsensical entertainment. Even though it is hardly...