Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need be forced to remain in a course discovered at the last minute to be overflowing because it was too difficult to find an acceptable substitute at such short notice. Some such scheme for equalizing registration from year to year and eliminating the present game of blind man's buff is the logical answer to the situation as it now exists...
...reader is perhaps impressed with the idea that this statement of problems leads to a pessimism concerning China's future, that China is hopeless. But such is not the case. It is highly important that China's friends shall not be blind to these serious, fundamental, genuine difficulties. To do so is to play false to China's best interests. With few exceptions, however, foreigners who have been residents in China for a term of years agree that remarkable progress has been made by this wonderful people. By all odds the oldest civilization of our time, the most populous single...
...reached a condition where our colleges are literally being drowned. Figures point to the overwhelming trend of the present in favor of the "practical, professional" type of college; but the arguments in favor of a general cultural course are by no means to be ignored. "Culture" does not mean blind, narrow-minded reading of the Classics any more than it implies an implicit faith in the efficacy of the Quadrivium of the old monastery school. A cultural course means broad general training--"literature, science, history, and the knowledge of men", as opposed to absolute concentration in one intensive field...
...education methods. What we need is a differentiation between the good minds and the poorer ones. Then we may go ahead with intensive, individual instruction for those men who have proved themselves worthy of it. At one end of the scale we do differentiate. We look after the blind and deaf we put the feeble-minded in special institutions. It is time that we provided special training to utilize to the fullest extent the best mind of the country...
...everything else and to colleges as well as to men. Some victories reflect discredit and not credit upon the college that wins them. Pressure is sometimes brought to bear upon the heads of colleges to silently acquiesce in this kind of athletic efficiency, or at least to turn a blind eye to methods which they know are ignoble. It is to their credit that most of them have sense enough as well as courage enough to stand against it. We believe the great body of alumni will approve this stand and that it will also have the approval...