Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is apparent an universal tendency on the part of men who have entered their applications for Plattsburg and who have taken their final examinations in college work to regard themselves as for the nonce free lances, privileged to wander where they please. They have completed their academic work; ergo that lies behind them. They have not been admitted to Plattsburg; ergo that lies before them. In the meantime they are unleashed comets in the orderly procession of stars, confined to no monotonous orbit, but lawless in the seven heavens...
That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...
...difficult to prevent men not members of the University from using the courts under the present system by which they are allotted. This is not the only fault of the haphazard arrangement however. At present if all the courts are in use men wander over the field to find out which court will first be vacant. One pair of players may spend ten minutes looking at the time boards and have to wit half an hour for a court, while another pair, more fortunate, may find the first court they strike available in ten minutes. In the long run, luck...