Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...nations in age, industry and population. Over two thousand years ago the country was civilized but today social and political conditions are much the same as they were at that time. Views were shown of the different modes of travelling at the present time and one of a model of a crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world. The Great Canal is another monument of the skill...
...Charles William Eliot, teacher, administrator, orator, prophet; forty years the leader and guide of Harvard, and in the single-minded elevation of his character a model to her sons; the father of the present American university, the brother of all teachers, and the friend of every lover of his country...
Many solutions have been advanced, but none has been shown entirely practicable or satisfactory. It might be that a plan adapted from the English model is the key to the situation. A rule that persons qualifying under the present regulations should complete the requirements in three years, while four-year residents should be obliged to take a degree with distinction or fail, would remove most of the difficulties, provided that degree were brought within the reach of the average man after four years' moderate work. Such an innovation would certainly tend to heighten the intellectual standard of the entire College...
...gratifying to learn that the Co-operative is the largest and most successful store of its kind in this country. The superintendent frequently receives inquiries from other colleges as to the society's management and methods and it is recognized everywhere as a model to be copied...
...does not look in that direction. The suggestion that the University should run a great newspaper in order to show the world how to do it is an interesting one and would have to be considered apart from the question of its use as a school of journalism. A model church, a model theatre, a model factory, and a model farm, perhaps also a model town, are a few other possibilities which might be considered in the same connection...