Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning. There is an absolute lack of sport enthusiasm and the old patriotism is regarded by the limited classes which still hold the feeling as a necessary or rather unnecessary evil...
...schools. It would, no doubt, do for older people but for young people it is a different matter. We have more than a thousand young folks in our school and a large percent of them read TIME. We are doing all we possibly can to overcome these evil influences and to have a paper or magazine in our library that advocates just what we are working against is something we do not plan to uphold...
...furnishing the means to carry on the movement for "more and better" tutors, the Harvard Fund alleviates a definite evil. From the ordinary sources of revenue, but little provision is made for an advance in the salary scale of the present instructors, which should necessarily be proportionate to the rising cost of living. If the proper type of college graduate is to be attracted to the teaching profession, a decent minimum standard of existence must be offered. An increase in the number of tutors and section men is also imperative, since the individual student is now the unit of instruction...
...charge of "rote learning" strikes an actual evil. The growth of universities has outstripped the science of pedagogy. And to combat the wrong, Dr. Penniman and Dr. Kinley invoke opposite methods. The "dynamic education", championed by the Pennsylvania President would impart to the students the inspiration nearest at hand, namely, the current industrial and social crusades, the drama which is being so unsystematically waged throughout the world. To ask the student to take his mental intoxicants from modern turmoil is, however, hurrying his ultimate fate. Allow him first to realize that education is not merely supplementary to life but preparatory...
...Salem, Mass., where they used to immerse witches, sorcerers and other creatures of the evil one, local Republicans last week cried "Aroint! ye rump-fed chair-thieves", announcing that those Republicans who carried off the chair wherein President Coolidge rested his limbs last summer when he attended their outing at Lake Attitash would be disciplined by not being invited to a coming celebration...