Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting question in mass-psychology as to why, in the face of these records, the constant criticism of the work of the "Y" persists. I suggest to Mr. Scott that he read the editorial note written by Frederick Palmer in the American Legion Monthly for September 1928, under the title "Were We Fair...
...barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into the White House than...
...McAdoo fought Smith, and Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator from Wisconsin, who in Jo Davidson's mass marble will soon adorn the Capitol's hall of fame, sent his ready-made platform and took Burton K. Wheeler for his running mate...
...Individualistic Harvard"; the phrase is a happy one. Are we to praise undergraduates for individuality in one breath and blame them for it in the next? If there is a college where individuality is still fostered in this machine-sewn, mass-quantity-production, stamping-mill, best-possible-of-all-universes, the United States, then why complain when its undergraduates do express themselves, even if maladroitly? Are these youngsters comically and unwittingly on the wrong side of the fence; is the "House Plan" they criticize designed expressly to promote the very individualism which makes possible their objection? Very probably. But there...
Although the opponents of mass education have plenty of sound criticism, which should aid greatly in correcting a system which due to its comparative novelty has many apparent defects, nevertheless many overlook the crux of the problem. If the main weakness in the system lies in a popular misconception of the value of a college education and even further academic work for a doctorate, it will indeed be difficult to change the ideas of approximately one hundred and twenty million people. The solution must as a result be found by the colleges and carried out by a more intelligent method...