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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education one dare go no great distance, leaning upon theory alone. That must be the criticism, in the large, of Dr. Kirkpatrick's effort. He is a firm believer in the eventual effectiveness of democracy. "Academic democracy," he states, "is here used to indicate that type of school very rare as yet in which first the patrons and supporters, second, the teachers and officers of administration, and finally, the pupils or students are so related to each other that they share mutually in the conduct of all the major as well as the minor activities of the school." And later...
Patriotic pessimism is a rare attitude. Even in the most discouraging narrative of national failure, one almost always finds a hopeful note. Apparently, the philosophical fallacy that progress is inevitable has made a deep impression on the minds of men. The latest pronunciamento of Dean Ralph Inge, the "gloomy Dean" of newspaper headlines, contains a healthy antidote to such universal optimism. In his recent book, he prophesies the gradual decl no of England exhausted by internal and external...
...told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his body and soul into an eleven weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same and is idiot enough to tell his roommates, at the rare times when he sees them, that he likes...
Andrew W. Mellon of Pennsylvania, present Secretary of the Treasury, on whom in June 1926, was conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws by Harvard University with the following words, "who with rare courage and sagacity has conducted on enduring principles the public finance of a vast and complex nation...
...identifying him as a big cousin of the African monitor lizard. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, assistant director of the American Museum, sailed last March with Manufacturer and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan on the same quest the Burdens last week completed (TIME, March 22). The Burdens also collected: seven rare specimens of poisonous snakes (dead); a 450-lb. saddleback tapir with a 40-in. snout (alive...