Word: digestion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion, you are doing a great work so far. My only hope, my only wish is this: Do be careful not to become another Literary Digest or The Outlook...
...hundred or more years ago the outlines of a college education were simple. In the centuries immediately preceding knowledge had not increased at a pace so rapid but that educators could digest, interpret, and relate to previous knowledge the new knowledge as it appeared. But with the nineteenth century the invigorating winds of a new critical and scientific spirit began to blow across the world. The scientific spirit began hunting, blasting, boring, probing, boiling, cooking, and dissecting. Men, animated by the Itch to know, began to dig up, at a disconcerting rate, all sorts of new, facts and new knowledge...
...Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...
...opportunity for improving the service which the School can render to other institutions in making this material available is so important that the Faculty has undertaken to devote considerable effort in the next few years to this problem. We expect to write headnotes for cases, to digest cases already in the files, and to index, collate edit, and improve this mass of material for the more ready use of teachers in other colleges...
...This is the largest straw vote on prohibition ever taken. In 1922 the Literary Digest poll brought out 905,000 votes, of of which 550,000 were for modification or repeal of prohibition...