Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From incentives most narrowly collegiate, it is of advantage to know where in the process of education, the Graduate Schools seek to begin. This knowledge very obviously bears on the question of where college work should end. The point is of universal debate. At Johns Hopkins, it has been solved by lowering the reaches of graduate education. But as a solution, this hardly ends the debate...
...knowledge and the increasing complexity of the curriculum in our universities is analogous to the increase of things and the increasing complexity of social organization in our civilization as a whole. It is, perhaps, more than analogous. It may well be an organic part of the larger social process that Galton described. We are witnessing today both the collapse of our curricula from structural overloading and the beginnings of a student revolt against the sterilities of current academic procedure...
...tendency of modern civilization to create burdens it cannot carry and to set up a suicidal complexity of organization. Our civilization and the educational system it has produced may have to run their cycle until they break. But even if we suspect ourselves to be the victims of a process we cannot control, it is dangerous to admit it, and to surrender to it is simply to set ahead the date of our debacle. We must not rest content with a coward's refuge in unrelated specialisms...
...drawn up in conference between the railroad unions and executives of some of the railways (TIME, Jan. 18, RAILWAYS). The unions indorsed it wholeheartedly. The railway executives' association gave it majority support. The President in his message to Congress had said that such a bill was in process of preparation and recommended favorable consideration. He later announced, however, that the bill was not to be considered an administration measure. It was passed by the House (TIME, March 15, CONGRESS) but in the Senate met a stubborn resistance. The minority of the railway executives, led by Leonor F. Loree, President...
Money Talks (Owen Moore-Claire Windsor). It is an axiom of the movies that any man who starts the picture poor and shows enough initiative must end the picture rich. The process herein is advertising; the advertised product, a sanitarium. The young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young...