Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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AQUERIUS SIDNEY JONES Cambridge, Mass...
Tufts College, Mass...
...fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911, Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 rampages by the Famine Dragon since 108 B.C. in one province or another?an average of close to one famine per year. Amid the Chinese chaos since 1911 conditions operating to produce mass starvation have grown steadily worse. Doubtless, well fed U. S. citizens will again contribute toward filling empty Chinese stomachs; but the time draws near when they may wish to know why their largess will continue for many a long year. Last week, as purse strings loosened, alert minds sought famine facts...
...fundamental idea in such a change as this, has to do with getting away from the old "keeping-school" theory of education and with substituting for it, within reasonable bounds, individual self-development. The American college is constantly struggling with the problem of how to get the mass of its students interested. The answer is to put them "on their own." The student that is allowed to choose a special topic that interests him, and to work it out for himself under advice, is bound to become interested. Education then become what the word itself means. Yale Alumni Weekly
...such patriotic and cultural revivals attempting to withstand an unexotic uniformity, may be to the lover of the humanities, they are unfortunately a last gesture before the advancing front of commercialism. Just as the great London papers penetrated Wales and threatened its native tongue, so must the efficiency of mass production inevitably break down the barriers of custom and nationality. Protective tariffs imposed merely to support an interior industry are economically unsound; a confusion of dialects clogs the channels of trade and diplomacy. The radio, moving pictures, artistic advertising, all the weapons of modernity, are weapons as well of internationalism...