Word: adapter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small-town life in the American Middle-West. Ruth Suckow does not look upon her people with the sophisticated, cynical, despising eyes of Sinclair Lewis, for she knows them well and has a true understanding of their problems and a profound sympathy for them in their struggle to adapt themselves to the basically altered conditions of modern life. The old security of farm, home, and church is gone and in its place there is a new and confusing set of standards and ideals. It may be a simple thing for the nomadic urbanites to fit in this new mold...
...waive academic restrictions in deserving cases. It would also be necessary to make arrangements with the European universities to continue the tutorial work along an integrated line, but this would not be difficult because many of these universities already have a regularly organized tutorial system which could easily adapt itself to such conditions. Other academic complications such as the securing of uniformity of organized study and grading of work are problems which have been solved at other American universities and which certainly present no insurmountable barriers when the will to solve them is strong...
...teach the people to adapt themselves to new conditions...
...important questions present themselves for solution. First of all, is the ordinary undergraduate capable of handing such freedom, and secondly, what changes should be made in secondary school theories to adapt themselves to such an innovation? There is undoubtedly a large portion of the student body who will not shoulder their new burdens. Those men who are at College solely to have a good time will continue to squander away the year from an educational standpoint and will rely even more strongly on tutoring schools before the mid-year and final examinations. If this group falls by the wayside, however...
...most practical permanent solution of the problem would be achieved by the establishment of a school of Public Service as a graduate unit of the University. With the background of a general undergraduate education, the student in such a school would rapidly adapt his theoretical knowledge to the practical problems of American government. The chief value of the school would arise from its ability to secure temporary positions for its undergraduates and to give its graduates a firm start toward a public career...