Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming to be recognized, however, by more and more students, especially as they approach their Senior year that their college education ends at the point where it really ought to begin. It seems to them that many of the facts acquired for the first time in college could have been learned more profitably in preparatory or high school; and they feel that the entire fabric of American education needs revision to allow for greater freedom for individual thinking in the colleges...
This section of the Report is most suggestive of a new approach to the problem of the causes of American decadence. Although such a general question did not come within the scope of this investigation, it continually presented itself to the members of the expedition as they examined the conditions of society immediately before the fatal drought. The outworn theory of the Analytical Jurists, that the Eighteenth Amendment sapped the morale of the population, is obviously untenable in the light of modern research which has proved that the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Amendments were intended as moral gestures, similar...
...Memorial Hall", says Mr. Wheeler, "is conspicuous in location. Appleton Chapel, or any other site in or near the Yard, could not be made to have the freedom of space and approach such as the triangle on which Memorial Hall is located. It is, furthermore, in easy reach of the students for Chapel attendance...
...NEWER SPIRIT-V. F. Calverton -Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This author applies to contemporary letters a new theory of criticism. The approach is sociological, the method scientific. "Revolutions in aesthetics," he says, "are due to revolutions in ideas, but every revolution in ideas is due to a revolution in the social structure." It was the invention of the steam-engine that made people interested in the tragedies of factory girls, the amours of merchants, when only those of monarchs had before satisfied them. His attack is directed chiefly against those critics who subscribe to Stuart P. Sherman's affecting doctrine...
While psychologists have been attempting to explain the eye in all its workings, Professor E. L. Chaffee A.M. '08 has been engaged in experiments on a single portion, the retina. The belief that the physical approach to an understanding of the eye will produce more rapid results than psychological experiments has actuated Professor Chaffee. Now after several years' aid from the Cancer Commission, he is enabled by the Milton awards to continue his experiments for another year...