Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present defective state of the art of setting examinations leads to an over-flourishing condition of the art of passing them--by means of methods foreign to the true purposes of education. The seeker of grades is a technician of the first order. Machiavellian attention to insignificant detail, introduction of quotations purposely memorized and designed to convey the impression that the writer could quote with a similar facility on any given subject, and a host of other tricks;--the pursuit of grades is often conducted with an insincerity which accounts in no little measure for the disrepute in which they...
...Washington's than Washington's from that of Julius Caesar; Jefferson, in a desk drawer at Monticello, is said to have had the constitutions of 100 democracies?all failures: these statements preface Mr. Baker's explanation of the endurance of ours by reason of its lack of definiteness and detail and its early administration under leadership the character and traditions of which reached backward through centuries of struggle for constitutional liberty in England. Attention is strikingly directed to the modification of the original legislative, executive and judicial departments by the creation of great administrative departments combining legislative and judicial functions...
There followed a long and jubilant article describing in detail a midnight session of the U. S. Congress at which President Coolidge had appeared and personally rushed through the repeal of the 18th Amendment. The orgies and drinking bouts which followed this legis- lation were hailed as marking the emergence of the U. S. from...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge, attended by the President's secretary, physician, aides and secret service detail, took train in Washington one afternoon and traveled westward through Maryland and Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies and on to Chicago to address a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Presidential party rode as the second section of a regular train, not in an ordinary Pullman drawing room as on his trip to Chicago a year ago to attend the annual Live Stock Exposition...
...comes to him. In a tutorial meeting there can be the informality, the spontaneity, the free discussion which a classroom lacks without the hampering, mechanical restrictions of an ordinary conference. the speaker who directs the meeting,--perhaps he is a different individual each time, the present in considerable detail a thesis which challenges dispute. In the give and take of the discussion which ensues, the instructor becomes a real individual, education for the first time becomes personal, and more than anywhere else there is liable to take place in the mind of a student at such a time that intellectual...