Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...details of the new program are now under consideration by a number of subcommittees. Many problems must be worked out, and we shall doubtless find it necessary to modify our plans in the light of experience. Especially in the management of doctorate study we shall have to work slowly toward the ideal of a more effective selection of candidates with genuinely constructive ability. The idea of professional training for education, on a graduate level and leading to distinctive degrees, is so new that we may have to wait some time before it will be welcomed by the profession...
When recent graduates of American colleges begin to apply the cold, clear light of reason to educational problems, deserting fictional pabulum for genuine analysis, the future assumes a brighter aspect. A few are heading towards this end, a stalwart valiant few. In the May Forum Edward C. Aswell offers his theory for what is known as the suicide wave among students. He begins by pointing out that as a wave the number of deaths amounts to no more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects...
...many showed any visible "sweetness and light". The slow moving procession looked exceedingly sour, very morbid. And yet over the head of each was a divine halo: his last major operation had been completed. Like the etherized victim of a surgeon's knife, each member of the English legion would soon send into the world of affairs the messagee, "resting successfully...
...educational are going to judge this latest method of hedging the college degree by such whimsical, tenuous phenomena. They will want to know definitely whether or not this ordeal of fire really tested any ability, really helped an individual toward what might be called "sweetness" what can be called "light...
...there are no dogs. There are pipes cigarettes, there are even cigars, but there are no dogs. Vassar's query has been answered with a terse dirootness. Never any more can she look upon Harvard as one who has not seen the light. Harvard has been asked another and Harvard has answered--another...