Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political realist he knows that the odds are long against any particular man other than a President in office winning the Presidential nomination. But if his rebellion should serve as a lightning rod to draw the lightning his way, who is he to say it nay? Or to object if his becoming a candidate consolidates a group to nominate another who represents Garner's ideas of what the Democratic nominee should be? Jim Farley, who controls most of the national Democratic machinery, can be seen playing along with old Mr. Garner (or old Mr. Hull) because he believes...
...great detail by the most eminent economists are thrust before the student, and he is asked to memorize them. Whereupon, he proceeds to do so and waits hopefully for the exam. If he learns how to think and apply economic reasoning, it is only purely incidental to the main object of memorization...
...solve the problem on his own by applying what he has learnt. The social sciences need "laboratory work" of the same kind. Tutorial and written papers are both steps in the right direction. Most important of all is that the teachers of the social sciences realize that their main object is not to present their field to the student on a platter for him to absorb but rather to teach the student how to learn and guide him in his study...
...field of education, been generally ignored. Harvard's Radio Workshop with its student workers and faculty advisers will attempt to point the way to the correction of these ills. From every angle it will attack the problem of presentation of ideas through sound. To quote its Constitution: "The object is to study and perfect new techniques for radio in the writing and producing of plays, poetry, and fiction, and effective presentation of political and sociological subjects of a more general educational character, and in the composition of music as a part of dramatic presentation, and to provide close collaboration between...
...closing his laboratory henceforth to "visits from citizens of totalitarian states" Dr. Bridgman has, to be sure, made a magnificent protest. As an attempt to object publicly to the prostitution of knowledge to the worldly aims of an individual state the effort has proved wildly successful--the whole world is indisputably convinced of Dr. Bridgman's aversion to government regulation of scientific research. But in its broader significance, in the possible scope of its influence, the recently pronounced ban has several conspicuous aspects which stamp it as an impractical, misguided, dangerous effort...