Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest with Teachers College of Columbia University and its disciples; it is a powerful directive force, and its main tenet is that the child should learn by "expressing himself" rather than by submitting to an academic discipline. For this purpose vast sums have been spent on schools replete with all the paraphernalia of the New Education, and the result is a nation suffering from acute maleducation...
...shaded hillside near Haverford College campus, in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line" district, a large white tent was set up last week. Into it shuffled an academic procession of delegates from 112 institutions, ranked by seniority all the way from Oxford and Cambridge down through Juniata College (founded 1876) to Reed College (founded 1911). The delegates, among them 50-odd college presidents, had come to help Haverford celebrate its 100th birthday...
...your mind out of the hundreds of people who have passed before your eyes, certain unforgettable men and women, whose lives you have lived with them, across the seas and centuries." Plot in the Western sense there is none. A continuous narrative, it contains dozens of separate stories, 36 main characters, 72 minor...
...speculators to observe that "science is a metaphor." His preliminary discussion outlines an approach to the subject on this basis, which of course involves the idea that science can never positively identify its picture of the universe with ultimate reality, that even an approximation is not certain. In the main body of the book the author emphasizes this fact while outlining the present position of scientists in regard to relativity, wave mechanics, the theory of indeterminacy, etc. With excellent tact he has written his outline on two levels, by following up literary exposition with more abstruse mathematical analysis, which...
...plan to make possible the return of reserved books between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...