Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be the goal of these meetings to raise questions on the underlying ideas involved in the course. For only when the basic ideas of a subject are made real to the student can he appreciate the meaning of the mass of information which he is expected to absorb. If the substance of lectures answers questions already in the student's mind, he will be mentally alive, and not passively receptive. It is, accordingly, a prime function of an instructor to raise pertinent questions about his field. As a means to that end nothing could be more effective than rightly...
...report is as follows: Shall foreign missions be continued? Yes, but not in their present form. Missionaries should no longer preach routine hellfire to brown and yellow men. "Western Christianity ... is less a religion of fear and more a religion of beneficence." With the rise of a "basic world-culture," arises the question, "Why the missionary need leave his home to convey his message?" . . . Resurging nationalism is a danger to missionizing in the East. Christianity should not be identified with Western life but presented in its "universal capacity." Nor should Christianity attack the non-Christian systems of religion; it should...
What can the college "do about it"? A few actual administrative measures which might help will be suggested in this column during the next few weeks. It must be recognized that the whole question is essentially one of the spirit which pervades the university community. But at least one basic guiding principle for the colleges can be asserted: the necessity of guaranteeing that academic honors represent genuine intellectual achievement, and neither superficial brilliance nor uncomprehending industry. In failing to follow that principle uncompromisingly any university fails in its obligation to the community and to the honor of learning...
...weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull girl with an unfortunate past. Joan Crawford works hard but looks too wholesome and collegiate to suit the part. The basic trouble really is that Rain is presented as a classic, not as the 10-20-30 melodrama of popping sex and fanaticism that Maugham wrote. Typical shot: a closeup of the name Golden Gate on the side of a ship, spelled out letter by letter, three times in succession, possibly...
Probably Gandhi is right in fighting for the inclusion of India's sixty million "untouchables" in a general Hindu electorate, both provincial and central, but there seems to be danger in his policy as well. Although Gandhi wishes merely to resolve the intricate Hindu caste system into four basic castes it is likely that once started the movement can only end in the break-up occurs the entire system and should this occur much will be be destroyed as well as gained...