Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American youth has the good fortune not to have its outlook troubled by outworn traditions, or by any imposed development which they resist...
...best possible way. The student will become acquainted with actual problems, with the difficulties of the business. The theorist will be able to understand the practical point of view, and the business man, the theorist's. The course will be able to trainmen for Railroads, not with outworn ideas, but with specific knowledge of the most modern problems. This type of thing may bring about the much needed co-operation between the university economist and the man practicing economy...
...present time, however, it has been realized that the contemplated step of two decades ago was a wise one and that the provisions of the will are now outworn. A complete reorganization of the Engineering School is now desirable and it seems possible that one can be effected which will not disregard the McKay bequest altogether. That something along this line is imminent can be gathered from President Lowell's report in which he points to the growing number of graduate students, tells of the inadequacy of the present system of combined undergraduate and graduate teaching, and speaks of forthcoming...
...with a classical training and consequently a knowledge of Latin or Greek was a valid requirement for an A. B. degree. This is no longer true, however, and the distinction between the two degrees, based solely on whether the candidate does, or does not, offer an ancient language, has outworn its usefulness...
...school theologians" whom he blamed for claiming that man's character was produced by divine inspiration. Bright eyes flashing earnestly behind his spectacles, he declared: "It was the outgrowth of man's own social experience. It sprang out of his own soul, and no outworn theological doctrine of inspiration, no conception of a spotlight of Divine Providence shining exclusively on Palestine, shall despoil man of this crowning glory of his life on earth, the discovery of Character...