Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When they were first employed, some were made salesmen. Undoubtedly they looked back upon four years of hard college work as wasted effort, but they soon saw their error in the rapid advancement which they enjoyed...
When they were first employed, some were made salesmen. Undoubtedly they looked back upon four years of hard college work as wasted effort, but they soon saw their error in the rapid advancement which they enjoyed...
...hundred or more years ago the outlines of a college education were simple. In the centuries immediately preceding knowledge had not increased at a pace so rapid but that educators could digest, interpret, and relate to previous knowledge the new knowledge as it appeared. But with the nineteenth century the invigorating winds of a new critical and scientific spirit began to blow across the world. The scientific spirit began hunting, blasting, boring, probing, boiling, cooking, and dissecting. Men, animated by the Itch to know, began to dig up, at a disconcerting rate, all sorts of new, facts and new knowledge...
...last hundred and the next hundred years of our-educational history before him would doubtless look upon the use of any such section of the curriculum as an emergency measure adopted by a people that found itself the victim of a great confusion resulting from an unprecedentedly rapid accumulation of knowledge. It alone will not educate men or equip them for the mastery of modern life. I suggest, therefore, a second field of inquiry...
...game of lacrosse in England has had a slight development in over 40 years. The rapid development of the game in this country has covered a much shorter term, and the styles of play in the two countries have become very different. The visit of the Oxford-Cambridge team gave us a chance to note the two different styles of play, and to adopt or pass by any features which may or may not appeal to the American experts