Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well, rather! "We'll cross and recross with red ink all of those, "And for those kind the students will pay through the nose! "Better middle-class English we'll teach in our schools, "And correct composition we'll leave to the fools "Who are picayune, narrow, and nasty enough "To insist that their pupils must master such stuff...
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...used to finance the measure which gave relief jobs to needy undergraduates. The news will come as a distinct surprise to men who have shared two apparently fallacious beliefs which the administration has made no effort to correct: that the House Dining Halls were to be run on as narrow a margin of profit as possible, and that the money which made the relief possible had come from a reserve fund. There will be much resentment, and to a very small extent it will be justified...
...unfortunate features of any educational system that the scholarship of the professor is too often confined within the narrow limits of the college. Men who are specialists in their fields devote all their efforts to the teaching of a select group of students, thereby never giving the general public the opportunity of hearing first hand the results of their long years of study. While it is true that the primary duty of the professor is to educate for future generations, still, present day society, in order to meet its problems, should be given all possible benefit of the scholar...
...fields. . . cling tenaciously to traditional habits of thought when their work as teachers is concerned." According to the report, professors, in order to favor their own original work, disregard any consideration of teaching problems. The departmental system. It is concluded, is the "key log in the educational jam" "narrow departmental ambition" draws attention away from the more fundamental problems of teaching...