Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this proposed reform blesses more than the C man; it is a true antitoxin for overspecialization, it resurrects the ideal of "knowing a little about a lot," and above all stresses good teaching. When Dean Hanford recalls great names like Bliss Perry, Norton, and Palmer, he unintentionally brings to mind the scarcity of such men in present-day Harvard. With teachers who can stimulate from the platform as well as in the study the 'University will more closely approximate a broad, liberal education than by any other means...
Herald of a new awakening, President Conant has demanded a revaluation and reform of secondary school education. The evils of high school and preparatory school training are so entrenched and pernicious that it is incredible that no one has been forward enough to do something about them. Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus...
...nation's program of social and economic reform is . . . a part of defense as basic as armaments themselves. . . ." As part of "realistic national preparedness" during the last six years he listed conservation and development of natural resources, public health and welfare, agricultural aid, evolution of labor, credit system cleanup, morale-building among youth and the aged. He concluded...
Despite the new Government's business-like self-confidence, beneath the surface Chile was jittery. No one knew just how far the Popular Front would go with a revolutionary program of social reform. Popular Frontists, 80,000 strong, jammed Santiago's new National Stadium to demonstrate for Loyalist Spain and greet Indaledo Prieto, former Loyalist defense minister who had made a special trip to be at the Aguirre Cerda inaugural. But reports of a Rightist Putsch to regain control lost in the close election continued to buzz through the country...
...Cambridge, fellow students, hopelessly out-argued, called him Thomas Babble-tongue. In his sos he was a leading contributor to the powerful Edinburgh Review. At 30 he was an M. P., the most effective speaker in Parliament. Two years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying...