Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supremely perfect and virtuous assassinations...
...contemplation of present-day education, it is well to begin with the assumption--certainly not a mistaken one--that present educational methods are far from perfect. Consequently, any suggestion for improving them deserves consideration, and most especially when it comes from one like President Morgan who has actually experimented with education at Antioch College. President Morgan proposes a six or eight-year course, in which the cultural and professional elements would be blended, instead of the sharp division between these two elements now existing at almost all universities...
Caste system is one of the strikingly distinguishing features of Hindu-Dharma. This in the present chaotic form, however, is not indicative of the original rational faith. Originally Hindu Society was divided into only four castes not on the basis of birth or monetary considerations: it was a perfect psychological classification on the basis of innate capacities and actual behavior in life. They did not have the Intelligence tests to classify individuals in terms of their ideas; but they followed much the same method that is still followed in schools of our times, in arranging pupils and administering their promotions...
...thing slow up the publication of the Register; if a complete board of five men were appointed, with their duties separated and distinctly specified, there would be no confusion, no duplication of efforts, no "passing the buck". Three Juniors and two Sophomores, appointed in the spring could perfect their organization before the end of the college year and be prepared to race through the routine of getting out the Register in the fall with the greatest possible speed and efficiency...
...atmosphere at the St. James on Monday night was a perfect one in which to produce "Icebound". Though several logs were thrown on the fire at frequent intervals., the effect was not apparent. Indeed, the characters often showed a need for warmth on the stage, and certainly the Jordan family, with which the play deals, could stand a good deal of thawing...