Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BETTER SCHOOLS" professes to be "a survey of progressive education in American public schools." It is written by Carleton Washburne, the superintendent of the public school system in Winnetka, Illinois, who has transformed his schools into an educational laboratory; and by Myron M. Stearns, a graduate of Stanford University and a magazine author of note. The collaboration is a fortunate one, the joint product being both instructive and entertaining, something which cannot be said of the majority of the many books now being written on the subject of secondary education...
Recognizing the seething ferment in American education today, "Better Schools" is an attempt to select for the layman and unspecialized teacher or school administrator some of the more outstanding and successful experiments, and to present them in a way that will help one to understand and profit by America's new school ways. They are remarkably successful in a non-technical way, and parents as well as educators of all ranks might profit by reading the material they present...
...wash slum babies. Comes a police raid; and Basher Bill is shot while trying to protect the babies. As he dies, the Army lass sheds tears of joy because the blonde harlot renounces sin in favor of the Army. Mr. Jannings, ponderous though he is, is capable of better cinema...
...works, produced a new storm of discussion. It was performed once in Manhattan but Metropolitan-goers, disgusted with Oscar Wilde, were disgusted with his story on which the opera is based. It has never been given by the Metropolitan since that first unlucky premiere. U. S. opera-patrons liked better Der Rosenkavalier which, although it was not, sometimes seems to have been written for Rosa Raisa of the Chicago Civic Opera Company...
...small concessions to one's own inclinations, known not to be right, but not thought of much consequence and self-excused at the moment. Stevenson's tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is popularly thought to be the well-worn fable of a struggle between a man's better and worse natures; but to me it has always seemed far more subtle. Dr. Jekyll was not the good part of the man. If it had been it would no doubt have prevailed over the baser qualities. These would have appeared as they did finally in all their abhorrent reality...