Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have recently come to the conclusion that the essence of Harvard pedagogy is to treat all students as a kind of clay to be shaped into some preconceived pattern, which according to the notion of the polite society is the most desirable and represents the best of manhood. It is difficult to define what is "the best"; but it is easy to see that this is the reason why there are so many lectures, prescribed readings, examinations, etc. The students on the whole are expected to be able to repeat what the professors have told them in the class...
...most distinguished actor", though he does his best to earn the title, and his charming curtain-speech won him many Boston hearts. Two or three of the many semi-minor parts, newly filled since the company left New York, are distressing; the rest fit cleanly into the well-planned pattern of the production...
...these facts assembled from a complicated pattern in which the motif to stand out most obviously is a warning for the future. The strikes of last summer were tolerated only because people were short-sighted enough not to foresee the consequences. The same overnight is not likely to happen again...
...earliest days, when a picture showing action, mere movements of a man walking, was novel enough to succeed. The pictures of today, most of them, are in story and development hardly more advanced than the early cowboy and Indian stories, where the only difference in plots all of a pattern, the prairie schooner, the attack by Indians, and the rescue by the cowboys and by soldiers from the fort.--was the change in costume worn by the principals. Plots of today are inane and get nowhere; but how the censorship can help raise the level is difficult...
...closing, he pointed out that there is no such thing as absolute liberty. The individual and the nation are bound by their duties to each other. He spoke of the Constitution of the United States as a pattern for the League of Nations, and urged that America with her wealth of possibilities do her share in settling the problems of the world...