Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing is clear, and that is that we shall find no really conclusive answer to the educational dilemma growing out of the enormity and complexity of modern knowledge if we attempt to determine the future evolution of higher education mainly in terms of curriculum construction. Any such approach will inevitably drive us to a choice between superficial general knowledge and accurate specialized knowledge. We must look for the really creative development of education in the methods of teaching rather than in the materials of teaching...
...position as president of a university forbids any sanguine belief on his part that such courses could be easily inserted into the college of today. Yet he thinks that attainment of a better system than the present is, if no approach to perfection, certainly sufficiently worth while to be more than dreamed...
...With the approach of final examinations, the Phi Beta Kappa Society makes the announcement that its members are ready to give the usual assistance to students in preparation for these examinations...
...respectful separation is somewhat easier than usual. And the use of this moment by the Survey Graphic in devoting its entire May issue to the discussion of the oriental problem is therefore felicitous. Although the articles form a symposium and do not lead to a categorical conclusion, an approach to a summary lies in Chester H. Rowell's contribution, "Windows on the East...
...TIME, March 1). As Chinese merchants invested heavily in yen at Shanghai and Hongkong, Japanese bankers watched the quotations creep up and up at Tokyo. Before the week closed, parch-ment-skinned board-boys 'chalked up a weird symbol meaning "One yen equals 47.312c today"-the nearest approach to parity (49.85c) since...