Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limbered up. During the first few days Coach Slattery will send them through light batting, bunting, and fielding work while Trainer Donovan will start his conditioning exercises by sending his men a daily runs. The fielding candidates have already been through a certain amount of this hardening process by setting-up work at the Hemenway Gymnasium under the direction of the Physical Department...
...much of the disapproval with which considerable portions of the British press have greeted this drastic action. But some of the objectors take issue with Oxford on broader grounds the "Spectator". for instance, reminds its readers that true education consists in more than what President Lowell calls the process of being a sponge and a syringe. "The person who wants to learn, and who is, therefore, worth teaching," says the "Spectator", "should have "Why?' 'How? and 'What is the use of?' always on his lips." Freedom of speech for the Faculty is indispensable for original thinking and sound scholarship...
Plainly there is great need for educative measures, counter propaganda. At present plans are on foot for, so to speak, popularizing the Federal Reserve System. It is unfortunate that it must be popularized because many things suffer in the process. But it must be done, so that the United States Senate will be aware of intelligent criticism if it proposes to meddle with this delicate machine. And yet here is only one phase of the financial problem that needs clarification. The fundamentals of exchange and foreign trade are not so vital to welfare, except that it is chiefly ignorance...
...referendum taken by the American Council of Education in May 1921, showed that its members were in favor of the bill. There are other factors which point out the beneficial results a national Department of Education could give Experiences during the war show that Americanization is a slow process; the Towner-Sterling Bill would help that situation by appropriating $7,500,000 for such work. A similar sum to be used for the training of native-born illiterates, and 50 millions for the equalization of opportunities in public, elementary, and secondary schools, would surely do good. This, and the industrial...
...unusual collection of books on the history and development of French law accumulated by the late Paul Viollet, librarian of the Ecole de Droit at Paris and professor of law at Chartres, which was purchased jointly last year by the University and Michigan Law Schools, is now in process of distribution between the libraries of these two schools...