Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since every Bozo in the country has an opportunity in LETTERS to gripe or gloat over TIME's policy from size to the red border, may I take this opportunity to find fault with the dropping of the column PEOPLE...
...that a newspaper should be like a mirror to the public consciousness in which it flourished. This is today the discouraging possibility. Even the most cynical of us must hope that such a list as this reflects not the whole of public opinion or interest, and that the fault for the distortion of values that so characterizes journalism today must be laid where Mr. Johnson puts it, squarely on the shoulders of the newspapermen themselves...
...attract, or the advertising value of the stamp that its name can put on the graduate, is fatal to real scholarship. It misses the mark of culture altogether--so that one may say that the more scholars the country has the less scholarship it has to show. The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other, to be regulated by the law of supply and demand. In this materialistic view lies the secret of the fact hat with infinitely less expenditure, fewer facilities and few or seekers, real...
PIRANDELLO would say that my inability to enjoy shoot is my own fault. Caught up in the treadmill of modern life, I have no time to read his novel leisurely as it should be read...
...distinguished contemporary, the Boston Evening Transcript, contributes the cogent criticism on current American education which is reprinted in an adjoining column. The pegs upon which hang the editorial reasoning are two. First, "we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently." Second, "The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other", and that "average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier...