Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president has taken a well-defined stand. Harvard determined the members of the class of 1931 in the recognition that the cumulative weight of scholastic attainment was not the only one to be placed in the scales of decision. This pioneer action has proven a practical support of the belief of President Pease that "the guardians of a privately endowed college will, I believe, be more faithful to their trust and better conservators of the money given by its donors if they provide for the merciful exclusion, or even the rigorous elimination, of those obviously unfitted or disinclined for intellectual...
...CRIMSON's belief that such a view--maintenance of the lecture system in conjunction with tutorial work--is most logical in consideration of the lower standards of the American secondary schools. Furthermore the plan has the merits of joining the best features of the lecture regime with the indubitable benefits of conferences with one's tutor. While it is seldom wise to make generalizations, one might say that the American student mind is less fitted than the English for wholesale tutorial assistance to the exclusion of the course system. A larger percentage of American youth goes to college and consequently...
Professor Clark's statement of the general educational ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters...
Taking sharp issue with the belief that war was the worst evil in the world, Haddon asked what would have become of the American contribution to civilization if the fathers of the Revolution had been "lily white pacifists." Even admitting that pacifism was a Christian doctrine, which he vigorously denied. Haddon pointed out that not one-tenth of the world even claimed to be Christian, and that the Mohammedan Koran taught reliance on the "long arm and glittering saber." War is essential to the enforcement of law among nations, just as punishment is needed for civil offences, Haddon maintained...
...paper) that Al Jolson has rejected an offer of $20,000 a week for an indefinite period to appear in the prolog at the Capitol cinema theatre in Manhattan. Mr. Jolson has money, a million or more; worries about his health. Eva Le Gallienne has no faith in her belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict between her faith and her belief last season by founding in Manhattan the Civic Repertory Theatre. She has distant plans...