Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to Doctor Frank P. Graves, Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, college entrance requirements are not complex enough. To the bewildered applicant the appalling program of examinations and the mass of official documents which must be signed and sworn to before one is formally approved, seem sufficient for the most exacting bureaucrat. But not for Doctor Graves...
...conquered the sea. Complex steel engines, 900 ft. in length, 54,000 tons in capacity, plow across it, 600 miles a day or more, over the same spots where, on the ancient maps, great monsters with fluctuating tails engulfed the early mariner, across the same areas where great storm gods with puffing cheeks emerging from the cloud in bas relief blew the chill blast of sudden death upon lost adventurers. The mystery is gone. And the danger...
...university chapel declared that atheism and anarchy were abroad in the university and this was but an outcropping thereof. It was the kind of writing that led to the assassination of President McKinley, thought Pastor Hengell. Said he: "May it not lead some youthful student with a grandiose complex of mock heroics, to assassinate a Madison policeman...
...step from college into the outside world is easy for the man who has determined his life occupation--for him it is merely a question of connecting up with a future employer. But for the man who has no definite inclinations, the world seems amazingly complex, with no helping sign posts...
...proper working, the new cosmopolitan spirit requires a single system of graded institutions, national in extent. At the present time there are gaps--often huge gaps--in the educational process, which should be a gradual progression from the simple to the complex. One of the seemingly insoluble difficulties which colleges have to face is that of inducing preparatory and high schools really to "prepare" their students for college entrance...