Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...behind the desk is often too busy to teach. The professor having absorbed facts throughout his comfortable career, is content to add to his achievements in the seclusion of a library stall. There he may dissect at his ease some trifling bit of antiquarianism to satisfy the cry of modern educationists for research, and more research! And so the instructor, who alone should be best fitted for presenting facts to his students, is dodging the issue with long assignments of reading to be tested by reports and written questions, for which the student can assemble more pertinent facts...
...survey of the front pages of modern newspapers convinces us of the truth of most of the charges levelled against the journals. The newspaper art of making much ado over unimportant events and neglecting matters of political and historical interest is demonstrated to us day by day, not alone by tabloids, but by high-minded and supposedly intellectual journals...
...handed in. They read Plato, Aristotle and Euripides, as.well as occasional chunks of Shakespeare, Shaw, O'Neill. They sketched Greek temples. Art, law, war economics, religion-no phase of Athenian existence was omitted. The climax of the year was a critical review, written by each student, of a modern book called the Greek View of Life by G. Lowes Dickinson. A few outsiders, such as Irishman George Russell (AE), lectured...
Free clinics have gone too far, objected Dr. Jabez N. Jackson (Kansas City), president of the association in his address to the house of delegates. The money and time investment of the modern physician equip him to give competent service to the public; the public should realize the debt and pay it, instead of crowding into clinks...
...only 75 years ago Japan mortally feared and hated the U. S. and all the Occident. But Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853 successfully "urged Japan to join the modern comity of nations." In a flurry of trepidation and prayers the Japanese received his suggestions, sewing machines, toy trains-and a telegraph...