Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon at 4.30 Dr. Ernst Antevs, Docent of the University of Stockholm, will deliver the third lecture in the Shaler series on "The Quarternary Ice Age" in the Mineralogical Lecture Room of the University Museum. The lecture, which is entitled, "Waning of the Ice Sheets", will be illustrated...
...which is now in effect in Prussia and most of the other states of Germany. Why was a reform necessary? Because the schools and Gymnasiums had separated themselves from the deepest roots of the historical German mentality and had become the bondsmen of the materialistic, industrialistic, and the technical age of Germany since 1870. They had drifted into a formless, superficial, and souless omniscience. In Germany one hears nowadays that the old school teacher won the war in 1870, and that the Gymnasium instructor lost the last...
...Gymnasiums may be entered at the age of ten years after completion of the 'grundschule' which gives a four year course. Entrance examinations are now given for admittance and thus the sole qualification for the Gymnasiums is intellectual ability rather than wealth as was formerly the case. Poor students are admitted as readily as richer pupils and they are aided by a reduction in tuition and help in the form of regular stipends. If one does not go to the Gymnasium after completing the 'grundschule', he continues the compulsory education until the age...
Last year the trustees of Johns Hopkins University were invited to consider an idea that was most unusual for this day and age of higher education. A vigorous speaker with a long lean jaw and rugged physique, a vigorous, practical man, among whose favorite expressions is "Let's get down to brass tacks," was speaking at the trustees' annual meeting and saying: "The instruction in the first two college years in the United States has probably always been in essence what is now known as secondary rather than advanced instruction. On that account it has no proper place...
...attendance at chapel as we may see from our Yale neighbors) does not engender among the students an attitude of spiritual exaltation, scarcely requires proof, not is it strange. The student of today, and above all Harvard, has no use for the forms of religion. He lives in an age, as well as in a period of his own life, of revaluation of primary moral and intellectual conceptions; his comfortable faiths and prejudices when tested with experience and the white light of intellectual criticism reveal the bare skeleton of dogma, and as such become abhorrent. That he goes...