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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argued that this apathy is in itself a product of the attitude which pervades our entire educational system, that the student is rendered intellectually docile and unquestioning by that very authority which his audacity would combat. This is far from being a complete answer to the problem, however. It implies a very flattering estimate of the influence exerted by an educational system on the mental habits of its students. And no matter how great this might be, it must always be unimportant in comparison to the significance of the personal attitude involved. Until the student can stimulate in himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOUJOURS L'AUDACE | 3/11/1926 | See Source »

...from the simple fact of their majority. The denial of the fundamental tenet of democracy by Mr. Lippmann, one time editor of the New Republic, and at present in charge of the New York World's editorial page, is of more than passing importance. His conclusions are not the product of a cynical aloofness but the result of experience in the school of politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNTING NOSES | 3/2/1926 | See Source »

...issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" contains an editorial, "Mobilized Knowledge", in which the following paragraph from Dr. Josiah H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, is used for a text:--"A university today is a glorified factory. It is a mammoth corporation, dealing not in a single product or group of products, but in the principles and products of all knowledge. It has added to its traditional strength because it has learned how to organize knowledge in such fashion that the fundamentals of the several fields can be brought to bear upon a given situation in almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GUILDERED GOWN | 2/20/1926 | See Source »

...shift of weight from chiefly rhetorical training to an introduction to literature is significant in its substitution of college education proper for preparatory school features. It presupposes more scholastic training in composition and prepares to make its further training in composition more a reflection of literary appreciation than the product of rules well-learned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW REGIME FOR ENGLISH A | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...League of Nations. We have not been hamstrung by the isolationists. We have not been converted to an ostrich policy. We are saying to 48 other peoples that we approve what they have done, that we welcome their success, and that we want to share in the product of their effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IN TIME WE'LL DOUBTLESS CATCH STEP WITH REST OF WORLD" SAYS HUDSON OF COURT RESERVATIONS | 1/30/1926 | See Source »

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