Word: readjusting
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...education hold in current magazines and newspapers is largely due to the breakdown of religion. Universities, at first founded as adjuncts to the Church, now stand alone, with the Church exercising only a slight shadow of its former influence over the lives of men. This situation requires that Universities readjust themselves to the needs of the times and accept the full burden of that which formerly fell upon them only in part--of preparing men to live. To accomplish this readjustment at Harvard the best thought of the best minds, must be devoted to a careful study of the problem...
...college is a place of enlightenment, an institution that will further mental development. Unfortunately it carries its educational inspiration only a limited way at present, and leaves many unaided who only need careful and thoughtful handling to bring them safely through. Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large American universities...
...volunteer has been presented to the settlement house, however, he ceases to be of interest. He is given no idea of the problems he may expect to meet, and when he fails, as he frequently does from lack of experience or discouragement, not the slightest attempt is made to readjust him or to sustain his flagging enthusiasm. The Social Service Committee acts as a mere clearing station--not in any sense of a stimulating center of social thought. The hi-weekly reports which have been asked of settlement heads must of necessity be perfunctory, and in actual use have...
...readjust and lower rail and water rates...
...seems obvious that despite the great to-do being made on the Teapot Dome affair, taxation will be a political issue of first magnitude next Fall. Most business men are now wishing that the election were over, the political back-biting over; that the opportunity were presented to readjust our taxes calmly and scientifically, without political interference...