Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think it entirely plain that the act of 1922 unreasonably interferes with the liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control. . . . The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose, excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only...
...child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations...
...mistake has been to dismiss all student animadversion as being of this type. He almost ignores the serious and thoughtful criticism of American life in general, and of college life in particular, now appearing in many college papers. In some of them, at least, vagaries have given place to direct and definite analysis. The Dartmouth, for example, has seized upon some of the salient faults of "this generation of ours." Says the Hanover paper: "We are the froth of the post-war wave. This generation of ours has perverted freedom as a means of escaping obligation--has lost appreciation respect...
...courses in the second half-year, English 8 and Comparative Literature 29. In English 8 he will deal with English Literature from 1730 to 1785. Comparative Literature 29 will take as its subject Poetics and Literary Criticism. This course deals historically with poetics and literary criticism and includes also direct discussion of various critical topics. Among the authors considered are Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Dante, Sidney, Dryden, Boileau, Johnson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, SaintBeuve, Arnold, and Pater...
...spirit of commercialism. It is the most dramatic of sports, and the box office has capialized its opportunities. All the major evils against which college authorities complain in football--over-training, the tendency to develop brawn at the expese of brain, in short, athleticism at its worst--are the direct result of introducing the commercial spirit into the colleges, where it has no proper place. It is the commercial spirit that needs to be attacked, not football itself Oust commercialism and save football for its many beneficial qualities--this is the need. The action of the Stevens authorities is like...