Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claiming that the high-school graduate of today is, if anything, more stereotyped and dull than his predecessor. If this is true, or even partly true, the search for the leak must be elsewhere. Mr. Mencken finds this cause of waste in the growth of special classes for the backward and in the large number of various sorts of experts which infest every modern school. Actually, there is another and even worse cause for growing expenditures: this is the movement towards a large number of courses in every conceivable subject. This innovation has had two evil effects: it has raised...
...believe you will have one. I have no doubt you will find plenty of news in the next twelve months and that, after all, is the main object in your lives." ¶"The proposals to stop the reorganization of government functions which I have made is a backward step," exclaimed President Hoover when he discovered Congressional Democrats were planning to void his shuffle of 58 executive agencies and then give President Roosevelt even larger powers to make similar changes. "The same opposition has now arisen which has defeated every effort at reorganization for 25 years. . . . The proposal to transfer...
...might be of interest to your readers to know that Technocracy is far from a new idea. Edward Bellamy, in his books Looking Backward and Equality, written 50 years ago. gives a clear and complete picture of the plan in operation...
...some students are not satisfied with the present arrangement, I see no point in obliging them to take tutorial work. But to make general examinations entirely optional is a step backward toward slovenly dilettantism...
...Reverend Francis L. Patton was elected president of Princeton. At that time the college was beginning to feel keenly the tug of new winds of liberal doctrine, and in the words of one who was a Freshman at the time. "It seemed a backward step to take a man with a white lawn tie, a black frock coat, side whiskers and the pallor of a medieval monk, to preside over a college devoted chiefly to the liberal arts." Patton had been a Presbyterian pastor, and a professor in the Princeton Theological School; he had a claustral and philosophic austerity that...