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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first greeted in official quarters. It is a well known psychological fact that movements such as these. If actively discouraged, ignored, or condemned, become subversive. They tend, in other words, to be merely destructive criticism, or wild-eyed and impractical idealism: The very fear which prompts the suppression complex is realized. The more professional educators realize this, and the more they lend their active interest and encouragement, the more this undergraduate movement will be productive of sane, practical, and constructive work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUFT'S EXPERIMENT | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...character." This attitude is a revival of humanism and is a ray of light in a welter of academicians whose pedagogical zeal has overruled their sanity. When its truth is realized one may look for a disentanglement of the educational problem which especially in America, is growing dangerously complex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SELECTIVE PROCESS | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Mathematics 33--Expansions in Series of Polynomials of a Complex Variable, will be given on Tu., Th., Sat., at 11., instead of on Tu., Th., Sat., at 12, as previously announced. Assistant Professor Walsh. (XIII...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Announces Several Changes in Curriculum for Second Half Year--Courses Added, Dropped and Altered | 1/15/1927 | See Source »

...emphasized. These are the smaller major, the minor, and the intramural sports which affect the general student body and are therefore to be encouraged since physical training has properly become a recognized part of the college curriculum. Furthermore, general participation in athletics is an excellent antidote to the spectacle complex. The administration of West Virginia Wesleyan, by curtailing funds for athletics, not only goes far wide of the mark since football is self-supporting but actually opposes a development which promises to accomplish the very reform which inspired its ill-conceived ruling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DANGEROUS MISCONCEPTION | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

...problems of government become more complex, a democracy has proved a failure. This fact is illustrated by the passage of the power out of the hands of the people. The task of the legislator is far too difficult for the average man to carry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING UNION FINDS DEMOCRACY A SUCCESS | 12/15/1926 | See Source »

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