Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless it is true that the cut-and-dried system of judging scholastic ability is deficient, such has long been the contention of critics; but improvement is being sought here by a change in the very nature of college work. President Lowell's recent remarks at Chicago, apropos of modern educational methods, represent the standpoint of a progressive teacher...
Next to insincerity she scorned unintelligence, and was no respecter of persons in giving utterance to her scorn. "The Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
...indication of the revival of printing and the art of book-designing, the Treasure Room of Widener Library now has on exhibition a collection of books printed on vellum and issued by the chief modern English presses. Among the most valuable editions is a beautiful edition of Chaucer, bound in white pigskin, and printed on vellum, an edition of which only 13 are in existence. Another valuable and interesting book is an edition of Emerson, presented to the Library by the printer, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1908. On the inside cover he writes...
...rumor was true. The Old Boys had heard aright. The Varmint is an anachronism and, to Old Boys' despair, the comment of Headmaster Horace D. Taft of the Taft School only emphasized whither the schools are listing. Said Headmaster Taft: "The modern boy is as good as his predecessors. The only trouble is that he needs to be about ten times as good...
...sharp perception of Headmaster Stearns pointed a moral when he said that the Modern Schoolboy is "possibly a bit lacking in some of the more rugged qualities" due to "the fault of the modern social conditions in which he finds himself living." And Headmaster Perry seemed to sense a lack of mental ruggedness. "They have far more information but possibly less intellectual curiosity...