Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent competitions started by the Illustrated an insufficient number of candidates have appeared, and a call for more men has been made. Positions are open in the news, business and photographic departments to members of the three lower classes...
...result, also, of yesterday's meeting the seventh grade pupils of several schools will return to their desks, while still other lower grade pupils will be accommodated in the Central Library, the North Cambridge branch library, the East Cambridge branch library, and certain other school halls. The plans as completed yesterday will put approximately 4,000 more children under school discipline, or its equivalent, and a great many of the remaining 8,000 will profit by the instruction to be offered at the University
...education system. "Education has during the last century become more and more a drill to produce power; but we must make of it a path to freedom and self-control." "The weak point is that we have relied upon instruction to produce educated men." Particularly are American universities and lower schools scored. Mr. Hack has not been yellow in giving his opinions. In spite of his severe charges, however, he is hopeful. "Freedom and self-control must be won by each man for himself;. . . . . hereafter the chief emphasis will be placed upon learning and not upon instruction, upon the effort...
...they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed, "and this is reached by the men who treat the discovery of our shortcomings as a reason for relaxing our efforts...
...Bill, the first step towards the constitutional amendment enfranchising the women of the nation. During the past five years the suffragists have made a gallant fight for political equality. Some aspects of that fight have been condemned. Others have been praised. The net result was the passage by the lower branch of the National Legislature of the desired bill...