Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects which were hard and to choose second subjects which were interesting. Compare this attitude with that of the great mass of college student. Through their spokesmen, the undergraduate editors, they are constantly demanding that education be made easier and more attractive. Their most earnest quest is for a process of such ingenuity and perfection that it will educate them in spite of themselves. The demands of the undergraduate critic may uncover certain remediable defects in college systems and in college faculties; to a much larger extent they cover over the fundamental weakness of the undergraduates themselves...
...scornful, "Oh, you don't have to do any work to get through that place." It is not ability, but appreciation and understanding of educational values, that is lacking here. The American student does not want to become educated except as that result may be effected through a process in which he plays a purely passive part. A German, for instance, is surprised to find that his American friend has passed up opportunities to speak German with acquaintances at home who are fluent in the language. The American attempts, on the other hand, to learn German or French through mere...
...back, in the groundwork of mind training. Social and economic environment, primary and secondary school criteria are contributing factors. Parents want their children to be educated, but they themselves have no true understanding of education. The best they can do is thus to put their children through an educative process--a process in which progress is measured by tangible milestones of years and figures. Passing of the final marks is the attainment of the ultimate goal. At no point must the youthful wayfarer turn aside from the path; his vision is fixed continually on the next grade, the next entrance...
Nominator Roosevelt wiped up this bit of political mud with a public statement: "Full accommodation was provided for me and my family in the Assembly Chamber, but as I reached Albany late and walking up many steps in a slow process, it was easier and cooler to listen to the speeches outdoors...
...Aluminum Co. of America using three other suggested methods of shielding base metals against corrosives with aluminum. One of these is mightily to press thin sheets of aluminum against sheets of steel. Workability here is limited. Germans are using this process in a semi-commercial way. Another is to heat iron and steel in contact with aluminum. This calorizing process (exploited by Calorizing Co. of America at Pittsburgh, a General Electric offshoot) helps prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric...