Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ford. Interviewed by Electrical World, Henry Ford preached frank monopolism. "People talk about a power trust," said he. "I only wish that there actually were a power trust, a central directing organization for the development of every power source in the country." He saw no evil in exploitation of power resources for private profit. "The real profit," said he, "is not what the promoters get but what the country gets...
...publishers assume a militant defensive against the producers. Such a position was taken last fortnight by the Publishers' Association of New York City, and reported at length in newspaperdom's trade weekly, Editor& Publisher. As is customary at such times, Editor & Publisher talked bitterly about "a growing evil" and a "deluge" and the "mushroom-like growth of free publicity." Then it told of a committee formed by the Association to "stem" the evil, forestall the "space-grabbing attempts." Placed in active charge of the committee's work was Andrew Ford, onetime managing editor of the New York...
...nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable us to distinguish between good and evil and in doing so "be as God." We have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum prohibitum, the two varieties...
...that the Philosophy and English Departments are more difficult than the Social Ethics and Anthropology Departments. Not only are the majority of courses within the "snap" departments easy, but worse still, these departments are more lenient than the other departments in recommending seniors for a degree. Herein lies the evil of the system. Conferring a degree upon one senior and refusing to confer a degree upon another means that the authorities of Harvard College believe that the one senior has obtained a better education than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always...
This practice has the ear marks of a result and is not a basic evil. Were there no opportunities for the crammer to succeed, this type of last minute study would vanish. This brings us to a consideration of school practice, with particular reference to the examination. It has been said that an examination is good, only when it is the best teaching device available at that particular time. Its function should be to point out when teaching has not taken effect, in order that remedial exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding...