Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GOODNOW Boston, Mass...
JACOB B. SHOHAN Cambridge, Mass...
There is no need to dwell at length upon the consequences which have been wrought by the American system. The inertia of the mass has been a constant drag upon the initiative of those students whose capacities and preparation justify a raising of academic standards. But at the same time a jealous public has resisted, in the name of their "inalienable rights", the exclusions which follow the tendency to raise standards, to enhance appreciation of matters of the intellect, in brief, to make universities true institutions of higher learning...
Following the recent International Chess Match at Moscow (TIME, Nov. 16, Dec. 7) sets of "revolutionary chessmen" are reported to have achieved a popularity which has necessiated their manufacture on a mass-production scale...
...church was appraised. As is usual at such gatherings, an older man was first called upon to speak, in this case Dr. Hubert Herring, social secretary of a Boston, Mass., church. With a flair for pat and alliterative statements, he said: "The man in the street has come to regard the church purely as an agency for propaganda ... as an organization that is trying to mesmerize him with soft music and big buildings. . . . The church has become too much institutionalized- something that may be summed up by using three B's-bishops, buildings and budgets...