Word: ander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken to visiting factories, watching with his trou bled stare the unselfconscious machines, the unquestioning workers. Perhaps Women, a fragmentary notebook, is the result of these brooding visitations. Not the arguable art of economics but human beings, their daft ways, their queer needs, are what fascinate Sherwood Ander son. What Anderson thinks is wrong with U. S. men (he has said it before) is im potence. To watch a Barker-Coleman spooler warper in a cotton mill, says he, is enough to make any artist feel it in himself. "Man has already accepted the power given him by the machine...
...from the drag of the incapable; to encourage and reward intellectual initiative. And everywhere the liberalizing process has included these steps: removal of compulsion to study; replacement of frequent, specific examinations with in frequent, comprehensive ones. Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth long since took modifications of these steps. In Dr. Alex ander Meiklejohn's experimental college at the University of Wisconsin, the radical plan of studying human eras whole instead of human knowledge piecemeal has been tried with success. The University of Chicago approached its reformation guided by two factors not so pressing at other universities: a large and intricate budget...