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...predicament of secondary education in America is the inevitable outcome of the heedless materialism that characterized the twenties, a materialism accompanied by a expanding complex that blinded public educators to the fundamentals of education. The motives which prompted communities to erect palatial surroundings for the secondary school system were doubtless admirable, but they tended automatically toward the neglect of the standards of teaching, and they were expensive. If the first of these effects has, by its lesser concreteness, been concealed from public attention, the second has been painfully obvious. For the long term loans which made the physical improvements possible...
...Anderson declares further that this country in no way produces more than it can consume when production in every branch of industry is roughly proportional to the needs of the community. Under present conditions of heedless individual overproduction, however, a foreign market is necessary to restore the balance. Yet despite this fact, exorbitant tariff rates were passed in 1922 and 1930, with the result that in order for Europe to buy American goods, there have been a series of increasing foreign loans. Now that these loans have ecased trade is at a standstill, and while the tariffs remain, Europe cannot...
...barked out, and there was a sound of marching feet. As every neck craned to get a view from the high old-fashioned windows, a band crashed into a swinging melody, and there was a scattering cheer from the dormitories opposite. The suave instructor walked indifferently to the window, heedless of the forgotten Horace. He watched the maneuvres below a minute, smiled, exclaimed "Cripes, ain't that great!" and then, "Class dismissed!" The army had come...
...most attractive feature of the proposed Harvard Inquiry is, of course, its promised policy of concentration. Other student groups are content to solve, with a flourish of a heedless and platitudinous pen, all the major problems in every field; and their results are capably mirrored in the adolescent omissions of the Republican Club platform drawn up last evening. The principle of thorough study of the year's most important problem is a long step in the right direction and should certainly be welcome in a society of men supposedly bent on securing a sound education and understanding of the world...
Wriggling their bare toes in Australia's good earth, the sturdy offspring (he has nine) of Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons romped and whooped in his garden last week heedless of the fact that their father was perhaps pushing rebellious New South Wales to the brink of insurrection...