Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs is the task of cleansing the modern Augean stables, and with mighty arm and mind they bend to the task...
...hopes, and the passions of all classes and races of people have been thrown, and out of which will emerge our tomorrow. At such a time we can brook no provincialism. Men must known that if they are to taken their due share in this process of remolding modern society, they must begin now to prepare through thought that upon which they are later to act. These problems are not dreams. They are real in the reality of a Russian revolution. They are as inevitable as life itself. The call upon college men for real thought and active interest...
...conference is planned not only to give opportunities for personal contact with men who are outstanding leaders in modern religious thought, but also to afford a chance for a few days of healthy recreation. With these ends in view the daily program will be arranged so that Bible and mission classes, and lectures by prominent social service leaders will take up the mornings and evenings, while the afternoons will be devoted to various sorts of athletics, such as intercollegiate competitions in baseball, track and tennis...
...academic life at these English colleges is nearly at a standstill; only a handful of wounded soldiers and physically unfit still work at their old tasks. Many of the colleges have quartered in them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic case to the modern air of military vigor. Apparently the old traditions have been lost forever. But we have the word of the Archbishop of York that in spite of this great change, there is no danger that when the war is over that students will not have the benefits of the long years...
...most important needs of the modern educational system is the ability to see straight," declared President Eliot in his address before the convention of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools Saturday noon, "then to head straight, and finally to draw the right deductions." Failure to instill these principles into the mind of youth is the cause of the failure of the present methods of popular education...