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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people know any real facts concerning its origin or its workings, and any discussion of it is violently partisan. To be called a "Bolshevik" in seriousness in these days is enough to make a man fight. It is a label that cuts far deeper than "thief" or "murderer," because no one is quite aware of what it means, and one's imagination plays havoc with accusation...
...those students who are enamored of the cruder and more stupid forms of radicalism, early instruction in the facts relating to the origin and development of modern civilization and the part that time plays in building and perfecting human institutions is of the greatest value. For those college students who are affected with the more stubborn forms of conservatism early appreciation of the fact that movement and development are characteristic of life and that change may be constructive as well as destructive is most desirable...
...supply the elixir of all learning "in a pint pot." A certain range of choice was inevitable. The wide expansion of the system, however, which opened up virtually all subjects to the student's choice, was the result of a theory, an educational dogma. This dogma was of Teutonic origin-a result of the "scientific culture" of modern Germany. Method was exalted above character. It was held that all learning was of equal educational value, provided only that it was scientifically pursued. History became a searching of documents; literature became philology. Shakespeare and Chaucer were no more important than...