Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...educational venture of any sort, success must be read in great part in terms of the amount of individual and collective rebellion which it inspires. The attitude of its administrators must recognize that the best patterns are those which are most fragile. Mr. Bertrand Russell has pointed out somewhere that the State of New York until very recently held it to be a criminal misdemeanor to teach communism while Soviet Russia had enacted laws to require the teaching of communism. Either the state of New York or Soviet Russia was wrong about communism, and they were both wrong about education...
...pattern for these Catholic retreats is Mount Manresa, on Staten Island. For years this lay-monastery has provided spiritual haven for the harassed souls of business men. But already a Philadelphia institution, the Men of Malvern, has perhaps surpassed it in favor. The Philadelphians have consecrated to spiritual re-creation 100 acres just outside the city. They have improved a choice suburban landscape with a magnificent chapel, a large comfortable retreat house. The genius of inauguration was supplied by Father Terence Shealy, first director of retreats...
...ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that is the reason that I might write a grotesque, but not perfect story of their deeds...
...purpose of our Glee Club to raise the standard of College Singing was a joy to me so long as it was kept within bounds. The Harvard Glee Club deserve great praise as the first to conceive and carry out this purpose, thereby becoming the inspiration and pattern for other Clubs. For many years Harvard in competitions won the first prize and deserved...
Rightly or wrongly, the sincerity of trained debaters and speakers of the old-fashioned pattern, has come to be questioned. With the decline of the influence of the old style speaker in the courts, in the legislatures, and on the public platform has gone the parallel decline of courses of instruction in the universities...