Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no doubt he is representative of a great mass of Americans who are known only to their local neighbors; nevertheless, they are really great. It would be difficult to say that he had a happy life. He never seemed to be seeking happiness. He was a firm believer in hard work...
...Hays' investigation into the degree of personal liberty among the Russian people revealed the fact that there is much less than in the United States, he said. Members of the Communist party control all soviet-managed enterprises; and as for the mass of the people, Mr. Hays said: "The people are not free according to our notion of freedom; and they're rather cynical about it. The only free speech I heard from anyone was from Americans and American journalists. The Russians refuse to talk about political and economic matters. The soviet system is founded entirely on discipline...
...practical world, the problems of rental culture and physical equipment impinge on one another to an embarassing degree. Even granting the ability of colleges to train men in the mass, they lack the necessary equipment. In consequence, universities have had to cull from the stream of applicants those best equipped for advanced work. The methods used to effect this choice, intelligence tests, photographs, entrance examinations are simply practical rules, admittedly imperfect, which give some measure of the candidates for admission...
...many. A plan of college admissions looking toward the selection of the leaders at the outset of their career is certainly less wasteful than a system admitting a greater number. With a lack of educational facilities, the universities can not afford to spread their efforts think over a large mass of mediocre material...
...gratifying to witness such an academic swarming. No one can see in this mass phenomenon anything but a good omen, even if many individuals would have greater benefit from the disciplines of the every-day world. It is only, however, when those without serious intellectual purpose dominate the mass that the gravity of numbers becomes something other than a benign promise. It is especially of interest to notice in the announcements of the leading universities this year the increasing exchange of teachers with universities in other parts of the world. If this could take place to some considerable extent among...