Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union, "Our country is at peace. . . . Education and Science have made further advances. The public health is at its highest known level. . . . There should be no hunger or suffering from cold...
...saying that the development of "a keen sense of values, moral, social, esthetic," is the duty of the college to its students. He believes in the inculcating of judgment rather than "the handing down of formulas and dicta from the teacher's desk." The reason for the intellectual level of colleges being higher than twenty years ago is attributed by Dean Hawkes to the difference in the collegiate educational methods. Today colleges are breaking away more and more from traditional requirements and considering rather the needs of the individual...
...scientific counterpart of Phi Beta Kappa, the America Association for the Advancement of Science will meet on December 27, at Atlantic City. K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, is secretary of this group. The session will be featured by a symposium on the late Pleistocene and recent changes of level along the North Atlantic Coast...
...nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting work of reconstruction proceed. --The Dartmouth...
...Lowell took office the presidents of Western State universities were saying, "At least, our students are not loafers. At least, if a student comes to us the presumption is that he has come because he wishes to learn. But you privately endowed Eastern universities have sunk to the level of harboring the idle sons of the leisure classes." In the Harvard of today they may or may not be the sons of the leisure classes, but one thing is certain, they are not idle: not if they stay. And meanwhile, after the lapse of two decades, the presidents of these...