Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sneer at our institutions." This is at once the article of faith and the justification of a philosophy of administration which has found its way to greater or less degree into every institution of learning in the United States. Because it confines intellectual curiosity within the bounds of dogma and so limits educational progress, it is a vicious doctrine, made more so by its apparent plausibility. Harvard herself, supposedly the very centre of the opposite theory, has not unhappily, been entirely free from its insidious influence. It must be fought vigorously if education is to continue to be evolutionary...
Multitudinous were the symptoms of Navy Day. In Washington, Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur preached dogma: "A first-class Navy requires a first-class merchant marine. And a first-class merchant marine is absolutely dependent upon a first-class Navy." At Port Washington, L. I., Lieutenant Frank H. Conant* sped to an unofficial world's seaplane record (251.5 miles per hour). At Lakehurst, N. J., thousands touched the silvery hide of the dirigible Los Angeles and said, "Gee!" In Honolulu and Shanghai, brown-skinned and yellow-skinned populace looked at brawny necks emerging from glistening white...
...owning more shares in the Suez Canal than the Rothschilds, even richer than Miss Grier. Tall and gaunt, she has a Giottesque religious intensity and the emotional experience of a child. Hers is the plan to hold an Ecumenical Council and promulgate the divine right of kings as a dogma of the Church...
...attempt to control what ordinarily, like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle the mechanical details of education with some confidence. When, however, they enter with dogma into the realm of psychology, they exhibit the daring of folly. Freud is in part a fallen idol of the subjective psychologists; while the Behaviorists deprecate his whole doctrine. Scholars agree only upon their own ignorance...
...differ in their creeds, their aspirations and the cut of their coats; it is hard to find two people who accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior?the unwritten doctrine of good taste?that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended equally believers and skeptics, as hundreds of editorials in last week...