Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered arcade is one of the most salient features of the proposed Library. Its floor will be of stone and marble, forming a simple and attractive pattern which is repeated in the brick and stone vaulting of its roof, supported by columns having specially designed capitals with animals heads grotesques, and other ornaments...
...present-day passion for whole-sale analysis the undergraduate is serving his turn. The "what" and "why" of everything the college man does is sifted, weighed and from it are deduced generalizations to fit a pattern rather than an individual. Those of us who are occupied in the pursuit of parchment letters to add to our names are all lumped together--by a writer in the "Transcript" as "that painful figure--the college boy." The same philosopher concludes his dissertation by advising us that the sooner we accept with "strong humility" Thackeray's dictum that at twenty...
Both of these quotations express the conviction that the interests of the Brooks House might well serve as a model by which to pattern the programs for moral and religious education even in the universities of countries quite unlike America. But more important than the acceptance, of Brooks House as a practical working model of program and organization, more important by far, is the acceptance of the spirit of Brooks House as the ideal toward which the social and religious interests of the students of these countries should be directed: It is thus that the idealism of mutual service...
...along the line of his chosen profession". Troubles for a young creative dramatist begin in the preparatory school", he declared. "There are two reasons why our secondary institutions offer no attraction for such a student. One is the prevailing tendency of all American preparatory schools to 'cut boys to pattern'. Now it can readily be seen what effect an atmosphere of this sort has on the young theatrical aspirant. He does not intend to be put to pattern. He wants an opportunity to train and develop his talent. So he immediately becomes labelled as a non-conformist, an experimenter...
...that perhaps more than any other sounded the keynote of the convention, Mr. Lippmann stated that the purpose of the liberal is not to form a particular party, or accomplish a particular program, but to find out means of providing modern democracies with the information they need. No one pattern can fit the whole world, for the world is varied and the nature of man intricate: neither can a group of men in Paris decide what the world is to remain; or one in Moscow decide what it is to become. For the improvement of human society is something...