Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Centralization of power in the government is necessary at times, but should never be continued for a moment after its necessity ceases. We want to get back into our normal form of government and get out of our immense national expenditures. We are now thinking of government expenses in terms of billions instead of millions; we should think in terms of millions rather than billions. We want to get rid of our army of unemployed; get back to an economical system of administration. We should build up a budget system, to be prepared by or under the direction...
With all the usual sources of revenue stopped, it was difficult enough to continue athletics, but with the enthusiasm for sport revived, before the means of financing it had again become normal, as was the case last spring, the problem was increased. To have allowed athletics to be dropped at the College would have been the easy course, but would have demoralized the future of the athletic system here, and made a gap in the life of those who were at College. Realizing this, the Athletic Committee worked unceasingly that sport might keep a foot-hold here...
...also been definitely decided than the school will be a genuine graduate school, requiring a bachelor's degree for admission, and offering the degrees of Master and Doctor. It will give processional training to school and college teachers, school superintendents, and normal school teachers. It will conduct researches in education and will have its own library, laboratory, and model school, and a clinic for the study of children, their growth and work...
While two page papers swing the pendulum too far the opposite way, still, the removal of the many extraneous sections and supplements which triple and quadruple the normal size of our journals would be a blessing. American publishers might well follow, in spirit at least, the example of Rome, for the combined conservation both of the forests and our mentality...
...present-day maze of quickly succeeding events and complex economic and political developments, the average undergraduate wanders about, eagerly seizing such bits of the news as have meaning for him, rejecting the rest. He has a vague feeling that when we "get back to normal times" he may be able to find out what it all means. The reason that he cannot grasp it now is, primarily, that he does not know where to find adequate accounts of current affairs, nor how to correlate his knowledge of them. In the second place he has not enough time. He usually reads...