Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approach a precipice gradually, and the working class movement can also be gradual up to a certain point, demanding and receiving from a prosperous capitalism a number of concessions both important and valuable. But these concessions can endure only so long as the capitalists can grant them without injury to themselves, and when their economic structure threatens to contract, the privileges won by long decades of agitation must be withdrawn...
...themselves to adequate treatment in a small discussion group. They require a depth of learning and clearness of exposition which only the capable lecturer can offer. The discussion of certain other subjects in small groups often is robbed of value by those rabid partisans; ever present, whose personal convictions approach the rigidity of madness. Untutored remarks, even though inspired by the assurance that silence will be severely penalized, are apt to become more amusing than instructive. The need for a guiding voice is obvious...
...bound of prove disappointing both educationally and as a means of living. In scholarship its breadth of scope enforces uniformity and superficiality: not the obvious superficiality of the flashy generalization, but the superficiality of mere learning. Information rather than understanding tends to become the aim of the historical approach, for information alone can be coldly uniformly catalogued. Neither does the past contain the key to the future or the plan of the present, for, perversely, the more it is studied the less it shows. History when glimpsed hastily or through a mirage presents an exciting panorama; carefully considered, looked...
...nineteenth century the revolt of the sciences and their increasing importance brought about the downfall of this ordered scheme, introduced chaos and opposition were spread among the fields of learning. Today we would re-unite them, feeling--that knowledge should not be divided into water-tight compartments. The historical approach provides a convenient common denominator. Direct, easily grasped and universally applicable, it already dominates the teaching of the arts, and with the current fad for the History of Philosophy and of Science, it is creeping into other fields...
...Sudden approach of many close football games leaves poor prognosticator panting in wake like Big Bad Wolf that tried to blow down Little Pig's house. Like Wolf color finally turns to purple as poor, panting prognosticator contemplates Holy Cross. Ignorant people say Holy Cross will Reiss to the occasion and Crusader's Notre Dame system will lead them out of the Woods, but greater knowledge reveals their attack will be Britt-le. Harvard will run round Purple ends till Sheehands outpoints with final score 20-13 for Crimson...