Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the preliminary and largely factual examination which the department has required of all graduate students at the end of their first year of work. Emphasis will be removed from regular courses and will be placed to a greater extent on research, seminar work, and the acquisition of a profound understanding of fundamentals. The final doctorate examination, moreover, will no longer merely test memorized knowledge of the limited field covered by the candidate's thesis, but will test his ability to solve new problems and to correlate facts and impressions by original thought...
...innovations are a desirable change in the meaning of a Ph.D degree in Sociology. It will cease to indicate mere pedantic knowledge of the facts in a restricted field and will show a more mature and profound grasp of fundamentals. The steps taken will facilitate this opportunity for the superior student by exempting him from mechanical examinations on fact. The average student, through not exempt from the preliminary examinations, will in the final oral quiz have to show the same intelligent grasp of first principles. Both the superior and the average student will profit by the removal from graduate work...
...world today is undergoing a period of profound self-analysis and education is coming in for its share of the general scrutiny of accepted values. Henry Suzzalo, President of the Carnegie Foundation, in putting secondary education on trial has stated a problem confronting both school and college. The purpose, as he sees it, of the education of tomorrow is to prepare a social man for a social system. The ideal of the individual triumphing personally in rigorous competition must be abandoned and in its place must come the altruistic citizen whose concern is to further the group of which...
...parties. She seldom accompanies her husband around the State or nation on his speaking trips. She did go to California with him last year and then her friends gave her a "bridal shower" at which she received her first silk nightgown. She has learned that her husband goes into profound abstractions when his mind is thinking out some problem, that he is never to be disturbed at such times. Many a time at 3 a. m. the figure of a tall, lank, stoop-shouldered man can be seen pacing the garden of the Executive Mansion, lost in a meditative world...
...type of genius Wright Goodhue was the most brilliant man I have ever known. His ability in the line of stained glass was remarkable. I think Goodhue ranked next to Aubrey Beardsley in keenness and distinction. Being a great genius he was naturally erratic in certain directions with a profound conviction that he must work along the lines that in his opinion were right. He seemed to me to be a reincarnation in modern times of some spirit out of the Middle Ages. His difficulty was that he could not fight against an unsympathetic environment. He hated modernism and resented...