Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means to other ends. This is done by a variety of methods, chief among which is an exaltation of the theory of "mens sana in corpora sane", and a reduction of the learning process to a series of wholly mechanical formulae the passing of so many examinations equals a bachelor's degree...
...Guild Hall functions, the Prince of Wales escorted the fair Catholic, Mafalda. Overlooking the fact that the occasion demanded such attention, the people, conscious only that the reprobate bachelor Prince appeared with a pretty girl of the right age and the same rank, fell violently to gossiping of an imminent betrothal. But the Prince of Wales remained his misogamist self...
...some interesting statistician has demonstrated that only about four persons out of every one hundred are mentally capable of obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree, it may very, well be that the high rate of insanity among college students is due to the fact that their minds are composed of a finer, more delicately tragic material than are those of the common herd; that while they are capable of more Intricate and more subtle machinations, they are also more subject to derangement. If this is the case, the present college population may be divided roughly into two groups--those...
...degrees. There is the problem of how to get the right kind of young men into engineering colleges. For the 60% failure he blamed the lack of adequate training of high school graduates. He suggested that the engineering school should either close its doors to all save those with bachelor's degrees in a college of arts and sciences ("Undemocratic!"), or should lengthen its course to six or seven years, to be divided into a four year training course for deficient high school graduates and a two or three year course for adequately prepared students...
...went on to deplore the enormous expenditures of money on building and equipment by institutions, and what he called "the incongruous mixing of courses in your schools and colleges whereby, economics, ice cream making, millinery, with a little dash of French literature, all thrown together, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts degree...