Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...founding. In the West the old Claremont Colleges in California, with their program recently announced, stand out as foremost examples of what is going on. Unnamed new colleges are being cut out of whole cloth; and the old educational world is watching in order to see whether the pattern will tell us anything. For we are all convinced that some of the old fashions are outworn...
...responsibility as new documents come to light, but the most conscientious of them will admit that their conclusions are at best tentative, that no final judgment will be reached in their generation. When, therefore, a popular writer uses the professional historians like Fay for his authority and weaves a pattern from present day memoirs of war guilt to clothe the Allied Nations, it can hardly be a matter of concern to his reviewer. The material, say, from Page's letters, the House memoirs, and Grey's memoirs, will in combination land themselves to as many interpretations as there are readers...
What the college needs, he believes, is a general course in philosophy for the founding of a "philosophy of life" in the particular student, based upon the great philosophies of all time. Here he apparently believes that a college student should gain at college a pattern for life which will improve later years. To reduce this to its simplest form one must state: that Mr. Aswell wants a college or university to give a student from its lecture platforms a working basis for his life work. He distinguishes a vocational school from a university by just that fact: a vocational...
...passed through the estates of a series of princes. Connoisseurs who have seen it in the Vienna museum say that it is the most beautiful rug in the world. Assuredly it is the most famous. Its designer, whoever he was, must have dreamed its pattern many times before he dared to record it. Such spraying valleys, such a flight of flowers and beasts, are the speech of a man who loved the world and knew its changing story. Reds ring together like swords clashing in a book; the silver of the hills, mountain greenery, the gold of the sea, blend...
...which the University 150-pound crew has been using for the past two years. The new shell however, will be built with enough depth to accommodate a heavier aggregation. Still a third boat will probably be built next spring, but it has not yet been decided what the pattern will be. These three new boats are being constructed with hopes that next spring the University crew will find one of them suitable to its needs...