Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need not search far to explain this American shortcoming. Europe stressing social classes permits fewer men to call themselves educated while America educates the mass and not a class. It is the very essays of the American educational experiment that a vast number of students should be raised as a whole to a common level of intelligence...
...college teachers could once by their teaching kindle the great mass of students to the actualities of life, if they could bring to them greater understanding of the demand the years will lay upon them, greater sense-of the privileges by which the struggle of life is postponed for them until they have had opportunity to prepare for it, the problem of undue emphasis and false values in college athletics would solve itself." Thus Dr. Charles W. Kennedy. Chairman of the Princeton Board of Athletic Control, gives to a no longer novel question a rather original turn. For a change...
...college teachers could once by their teaching kindle the great mass of students to the actualities of life," he says, "if they could bring to them greater sense of the privilege by which for them the struggle of life is postponed until they have had opportunity to prepare for it, the problem of undue emphasis and false values in colleges athletics would solve itself...
...people who have read about the much-touted Park Avenue chimes may be aware that there is another carillon, made by the same English bell foundry, only slightly inferior in range of bells, in St. Stephen's Church, Cohasset, Mass. Kam Lefévere is carilloneur. For some two years he has given concerts of carillon music on Sunday afternoons when the weather is warm. In place of a worthy patriotic air, Mr. Lefévere has a way of ending with a fantasia by Benoit, a carillon arrangement of Schubert or Rubenstein or his own graceful "Preludium...
...between them rather long, while, conversely, to the abler students he gives of himself eagerly and without stint. Meanwhile, he soothes his conscience with the reflection that the average student, lacking intellectual individuality as he does, is not entitled to individual attention and must be dealt with in the mass, as one of many in a class room...