Word: generality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were not representing the sentiment of the majority in the colleges from which they came, the fact that the only testimony given by college men was opposed to universal training tended to place those colleges on record as so opposed. Allinson is quoted as saying that he thought the general opinion of the student body in the University was "that the voluntary system has not failed, and that compulsion ought not to be resorted to until it has been definitely proved that the government can get the soldiers which it needs in no other...
...General Education Board, which has previously published the ideas of Dr. Abraham Flexner regarding the education of boys and girls, is now to join with Teachers College in putting those ideas into practice. Beginning next fall a number of children will take a course in experimental education of this particular type, for all education is, strictly speaking, an experiment...
...many years Dr. Abraham Flexner has been trying to make a practical experiment of his advanced ideas about modern education. At last the General Education Board has arranged with the Teachers College of Columbia University to create a school for the education of young children according to Dr. Flexner's principles. The New York Times regards this as a most dangerous attack against the present accepted system of education. Whether this experiment will imperil our entire educational structure is a question, but it is a progressive step and one that should be watched with great interest...
...judges in this year's competition will be: Professor James C. Egbert, director of the Extension Teaching and Summer Session, Columbia University; Dr. Hastings H. Hart, director, Child Helping Department, Russell Sage Foundation; and the Honorable William H. Wadhams '99L, judge of the Court of General Sessions, City of New York...
...addition, the Yale News and the Student Council have announced themselves officially as being in favor of it, which clearly shows Yale's attitude in regard to the general idea of universal service, though not to any particular form of it or any particular bill being discussed at present...