Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood of reports has been issuing from this complex expedition, a main point being that the Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen...
Freshmen entering Harvard are whirled quickly along a course of life strikingly unfamiliar. They are buffeted about in a highly individual and complex world. Before they can gain their equilibrium, it is demanded of them that they be quite orientated. Only the prematurely fit who quickly adapt themselves survive. Experiences teaches, but its methods are needlessly harsh...
...matter of the professor of Legislation. Dean Pound continues, "One of the chief problems of today is how to enforce the huge output of legal precepts required by the complex life of urban industrial communities. Here again is a subject in which a professorship, in a national school, in which students from every part of the country compel the teacher to consider the question from many points of view, may do great things...
...good, and none can be rejected until it (i.e. the claim) has failed to make good, the function of education in a democratic community has been served; freedom has been safeguarded." Immediately afterwards he questions whether this rather cumbersomely expressed ideal will ever be realized. He fears that the complex organization imposed on the American educational system kills the spirit of independent inquiry. This picture is indeed repulsive; unfortunately it is to a great extent true. The constant reactions against the present system of education, as expressed for example by the Gary school movement, indicates a widespread opinion that...
...young man in Portland, Oregon, under the impression that he too, could learn 'o play in thirty days, purchased what is called a cornet. Being more than commonly considerate, he took the instrument to a vacant lot, and there, behind sheltering bill boards, gave vent to his musical complex. Such was the reward of his virtue, however, that he was taken to the police station as a "suspicious person." The following morning a wise judge praised his thoughtfulness in not practicing where he would disturb the neighbors and sent him back...