Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington, where visiting shows are thoroughly appreciated, was entertained last week by a one-man act which gained fame on European circuits last summer and on the Southern circuit last month...
Died. Emile Mayrisch, president of the European steel trust, known as the Luxemburg Cartel (TIME, Dec. 5); in an automobile accident, near Châlons-sur-Marne, France...
...that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced by this glant degenerated to vulgarity, but not before Hauptmann, Shaw, and Strindberg, following Ibsen, had established its importance in literature. Not often does true genius receive its due while its possessor lives; Ibsen, however...
With the American system of secondary education floundering about in a flood of adverse criticism and depreciation at the hands of contemporary critics, and, as might be expected, the European system enjoying a corresponding elevation in this country, it is interesting to learn that Great Britain's educators are by no means satisfied with the state of affairs in their secondary schools. It is charged that the cardinal vice there is the consistant cramming of students of 11 and 12 years of age in order that they may make the transition, from primary to secondary institutions, the latter being...
...experience of American colleges with tutoring schools, and bureaus specializing in such cramming is warning enough that here is one feature of English education which is totally undesirable. There seems to be no greater evil than systematic cramming in the European usage, in this instance, analogous to the American custom. The effects on the college student are stultifying enough to enable one to imagine the mental inertia involved in submitting a plastic child to processes of intellectual indigestion similar to those obtained by patronizing a progressive tutoring school in this country...