Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quite recently, realization of this second point has been evidenced among a large number of schools, and a committee has been engaged in drawing up a new preparatory school curriculum. At least one boarding school of large size has, moreover, gone a step further and has introduced, more or less informally, courses designed to give the student some conception of the actual world within which he lives, such as can not be derived from the study of algebra or Latin. Their aim, namely, the general broad view over and the correlation of the various forces which have produced the contemporary...
...goes with the Standard, however, he separates himself from Continental United States. The Company has no plan for men to return to the American branch of the organization. It expects its men in foreign service to remain in the Far East indefinitely. To men of a more or less adventurous spirit who are interested in the possibilities of a large organization which promises good rewards in a distant field, this Company is distinctly deserving of careful investigation
...most recent Italian elections, heralded as a great victory for Mussolini and the groups which support him are as a matter of fact rather difficult to interpret. Not only are no satisfactory data available with reference to the nominating process of those 'elected', but even less do we know about the circumstances of the election itself. True, the Times correspondent emphasized that there was no violence at the election; but it would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each...
...maintained when the corporations are made into creatures of the central political authorities (since they depend upon these authorities for recognition) is doubtful to me. It might with more justification be maintained that they bring about a rigid bureaucratization of the social strata, which elsewhere are left more or less to their own council and initiative. To some extent this tendency to governmentalize the 'interest groups' is to be found in all modern states. But what the Italian experiment of forcing this development for purposes of general representation certainly does bring about is a rather complete elimination of parliamentary processes...
...other hand, the younger graduate is more inclined to appreciate the prerogatives possessed by the contemporary Harvard man. He probably feels that the evils of present day Harvard undergraduate life are less obnoxious than they are painted by the warmest supporters of the Housing system. For undergraduate life at Harvard is not so unnatural and artificial that the House Plan can eliminate immediately the small social groups, as one Harvard Club officer predicts. The more enthusiastic older alumni are too optimistic. When it is admitted that the same small social groups will be just as conspicuous a part...