Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face of our mysterious relative. No sewing circle, tearing asunder some absent member, can compare with our astronomical gossips, gathered round observatory table, as they gloat over ever wrinkle and mole which the telescope reveals. What wonder, therefore, that the fear-stricken orb hangs back, refusing to shine...
...have not yet been fully determined, but when they are, our capacity and achievement will be recorded by means of scientifically accurate processes. Professor Thorndike does not give the details of the method, but states that in the "Contemporary Civilization" course, taken by all freshmen at Columbia, a "prepared instrument" for testing achievement was successfully employed. Does this mean that some day we shall be satisfying the requirements in English by reciting a given number of lines from Shakespeare with calipers across our forehead, a thermometer in our mouths, and a stopwatch in our hands...
Unfortunately this bold statement is slightly vitiated on its negative side by the fact that the usual method of probing, the written examination is to be employed. The preversion of this delicate instrument into an extractor of meticulous bits of unrelated information is a sad fact of experience to most of us. No doubt those who formulated the new rules mean to stress intelligence and to make the examination broad and general rather than textual. Let us hope...
...Club during the season was vindicated by a marked improvement in the quality of tone over the first concert last December. He has now moulded the chorus into a body of singers surprisingly responsive to his slightest musical wish. He has made the Glee Club a finely sensitive musical instrument, upon which he can play as he will. This is a very great achievement in itself, how great only those with experience in directing choruses can fully realize. Only hard and intelligent team work on the part of all concerned has made it possible...
...expression of the idea that religion is fundamentally social in character and that the church should be an expression of the spiritual ideas of the social group. Just as the democratic community has developed such institutions as the state, the school and the social center as instruments for the proper functioning of its life, so should it develop the church as a similar instrument...