Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago the Government took upon itself an irrigation project in the North Platte valley. Settlers upon the project were ordered to pay a construction charge and in addition an annual water charge. The water charge was increased. Many of the settlers could not, did not pay it. The Government refused to furnish water until all charges were paid. Crops withered and parched on the drought riven fields...
...Project" Studies. The article was from Dr. Glenn Frank, who has spent the past year studying at first hand the problems of a modern mammoth state institution, the University of Wisconsin, for whose presidential chair he left a cosy editor's desk on the Century magazine (TIME, May 25, 1925), More than ever impressed with the enormous weight and diversity of the knowledge humanity has been harvesting for itself in the past century, Dr. Frank pondered the problem of acquainting freshman and sophomores with the nature of the entire crop before turning them loose to pitch, thrash and store...
...during the sophomore year to draw comparisons between the ways different people go at the job of building and administering a civilization, and to discover what kinds of civilizations occur when different sets of factors are present. This is, of course, an adaption to higher education of the project method that has been worked out in primary and secondary education. And there at least is this advantage in taking a situation out of the past rather than out of the present, it will stand while you study...
Here at any rate is a definite suggestion of teaching by situation rather than by subject in the college. Is such a project feasible...
...Story* jolts off down the clay ruts of Lane County, Tennessee - stretches of crowded, stumbling action; bursts of mulish power. Abner Teeftallow, a brawny illiterate of 18, leaves the poor-farm where his mother died insane, to labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money...