Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Quincy and his predecessors kept the University from succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to...
¶ John Dewey's well-worn "learning by doing" slogan has come to mean little more than that "children move around more and read less." The modern educationalists have apparently forgotten that "if the child is to gain an understanding of the history of Western civilization, the 'doing...
"I hope people won't be fooled by the medieval setting," says Artist Blechman. "Cantalbert is strictly a modern man."
During the Dark Ages, Fortuna's temples were looted down to their bones. Even their marble facings were carted away for building material. Gradually the town of Palestrina and the feudal stronghold of the Colonna family spread over the massive remains, effectively hiding them from archeologists. In 1944, Allied...
Now comes Biographer Bradford Smith* with information that seems to give the truth back to Captain Smith and the lie to his detractors. In the past, critics of Smith have only had to point to his autobiographical book of True Travels, a tangle of yarns as wild and incredible as...