Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whatever else one may think of Gilbert Murray's scholarship, he has, at least, taken advantage of a second modern opportunity, in that he has embodied, perhaps better than any other, the meaning of Hellenic culture for his own time. The mediaeval period, the Renaissance, the seventeenth century, each understood antiquity differently and found in it a different kind of inspiration. It remains for us to interpret the Classics to our contemporaries in contemporary terms, to demonstrate their perennial vitality by showing their relation to modern problems and fashions. We may not be willing, like the English scholar, to reduce...
With the fourth chapter, we reach a study of the making of a modern army. Starting with the individual fighting man, we are shown how he himself is trained, and later how he is fitted into the general scheme of a huge fighting machine. The discussion, which takes five chapters, treats not only the technical side of drill and organization, but also touches on the by-products of military training,--military habit, discipline, efficiency, self-confidence, self-control, orderliness, loyalty, and obedience...
...medicine was flooded by members of ill-prepared medical graduates; and the profession was forced to take matters in its own hands. Through the American Medical Association a publicity campaign was undertaken, which drove the incomplete school out of existence and raised the standard of the profession to its modern status. The Association required at first that medical students should have a college degree; but this was unsatisfactory, on account of the varied significance of degrees from different colleges. Under the revised requirements they demand two years of previous academic training, with high scholarship, and one year of work...
...With the modern need for specialized training, teaching has become a profession in which the requirements for admission are steadily increasing in severity. As the demand grows for the trained teacher, universities throughout the country are enlarging their educational departments. At Harvard and Yale they have become an important division; and at Columbia and Chicago schools of education separate from the college have been formed...
...modern teacher is treated with a new respect. That social and political fields are open to him may be seen from the example of President Wilson and ex-President Taft, educators as well as presidents. Not only does the profession offer opportunity for public service, but fair compensation in return...