Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What did Stephen C. Foster do that Congress should authorize memorial half dollars for his birth centennial...
...purpose of the National Student Unions is to give help to students in gaining a higher standard of moral, educational and material conditions. Its duty is to coordinate the work of the different national student bodies in relation to international intercourse; to foster their cooperation and create through this cooperation a spirit of understanding, good will and mutual assistance. Consequently, the practical work to attain this higher moral, educational and material standard, is done chiefly by the National Student Unions. I shall not go into the details or outline the different topics on which the individual National Unions are working...
...disappointed. Mr. Weaver, in a rather loose, often eccentric style, paints a delightful picture of a far from delightful picture of a far from delightful existence in the Black Valley. Here East meets West with as little mutual comprehension as Mr. Foster found in India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees...
Suppose a university where the professors were determined to foster this spirit of intellectual audacity. Suppose that courses in economics offered a reasonably unprejudiced treatment of socialistic theories, that English courses were prepared to deal adequately with Joyce or Eliot or Blake. Any education which such a university could furnish, however ideal its equipment might be would demand the contribution by the student of a certain amount of individual judgment, in reality a much greater amount than in the kind of university where education comes wrapped in neat patterns. If the student still furnished no intellectual reagent...
...population shifts westward, the state university will become an increasingly important medium of instruction. In order to progress toward the educational ideal, outside pressure must not be a factor in faculty policy. Only if it is itself free from control can a university foster that essential of education, intellectual independence...