Word: faddism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practicality lifts from the forest of educational faddism the experiment on college students just concluded by Professor Edward S. Jones, professor of psychology at the University of Buffalo Thirty-two high school graduates who had been admitted to college, but were ranked in the lowest two fifths of their high school classes, were given four weeks of intensive preparation for the business of being a college student...
Nevertheless the constant criticism of foreigners is apt to rankle. It will call to mind the fact that Whistler was American by birth, but British by education and sympathies. It will make him painfully conscious of the faddism which "American artists", as such, have indulged in. And the recent exhibit of the "Society of American Artists" in New York will not comfort him. Its two stellar attractions would hold, in foreign eyes, the place of scorn that Mr. Studge, the Medium, held in Browning's. In one of these "masterpieces", Bryan, Anderson, and Volstead are seen protesting against the miracle...