Word: combated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge of "rote learning" strikes an actual evil. The growth of universities has outstripped the science of pedagogy. And to combat the wrong, Dr. Penniman and Dr. Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory...
...member of the League? Why then should not France call upon the League and ask for an international judgment on the question? If the League found France justified in her arbitrary handling of the Riffians then she might go ahead with universal approval and aid to combat the Riffians. But France is not certain that her policy is justifiable. So she takes upon herself the solution of what she calls her "domestic problem." Also if France were to approach the League either voluntarily or at the instance of other nations, it would leave a precedent which would hurt the secure...
...holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans smashed their household crockery, gave up business and travel, tore their hair, gnashed their teeth, beat their hairy chests. Mountain-dwelling Filipinos donned armor, pounded gongs and descended toward the sea to combat what they believed was a race of planet-devouring crocodiles. But other humans behaved quite otherwise. From the opposite side of the earth they had thronged to put themselves in the shadow's path -astronomers from Holland, England, Italy, from Swarthmore College, U. S. Naval Observatory, Harvard University, Allegheny...
...Glee Club maintained its supremacy in musical performance, the many graduates, myself among them, shared with Mr. Slocum his regret that it so frankly preferred gloom to glee but in recent years its quality has deteriorated so that now several glee clubs hereabouts have vanquished it in fair combat. Certainly, a healthy sporting spirit would have led it to continue in competition at lest till it had regained its lost laurels...
...unknown author of the original newspaper article was evidently staging an entirely imaginative expose of the "bureaucratic conduct of affairs in the War Department." He should know that combat infantry organizations, in which the Secretary of War and his immediate subordinates served, are not the best breeding places for bureaucratic methods of any kind...