Word: processes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to submit two suggestions: (1) the spirit of education should be more materialistic; and (2) more political. I assure you there is nothing in my thesis that can shock the most high-minded New England transcendentalist. Affirmatively, I in fact present these intimations of direction for the educational process as sound instruments for achieving the aim propounded by your correspondent, Mr. Joslyn, namely, to ennoble the person educated...
...first place, our system of education has become passive; it lacks spontaneity. More than one professor has likened it to the process of eating. Educative food is held out by the faculty in conveniently-sized morsels to be devoured by the student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated...
...candidates for the Lee Wade Prize are to attend these trials, and the final speakers will then be chosen by an elimination process. The contestants who succeed in surviving the preliminaries will meet in the final competition in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, March 27. Each speaker will deliver the same selection, a portion of "The Defence of Blenner-hassett," by William Wirt. The three prizes are of $25, $15 and $10, respectively...
...ideals, the aspirations, the hopes, and the passions of all classes and races of people have been thrown, and out of which will emerge our tomorrow. At such a time we can brook no provincialism. Men must known that if they are to taken their due share in this process of remolding modern society, they must begin now to prepare through thought that upon which they are later to act. These problems are not dreams. They are real in the reality of a Russian revolution. They are as inevitable as life itself. The call upon college men for real thought...
...proposed race against Princeton is not yet settled, and no announcement has been made of an award for members of the crew who row against the University of Pennsylvania. The arrangement of intercollegiate schedules in all three sports, although carefully limited and restricted as to details, has completed the process of launching Yale athletics into as wide a competition as can be planned at present...