Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...root of the difficulty lies in the relationship between the secondary schools and the colleges. Our students come to college 'prepared', but with hardly the beginnings of an education. Contrasted with the students in English and Continental secondary schools, they must be rated, age for age, markedly inferior. There is no thoroughness or consistency in our school system. Our schools suffer from that disease that keeps them permanently enfeebled--'credititis', the itch for credits points, units, and semester hours. We are in the midst of a generation of students and teachers obsessed with the notion that organization in education means...
...significance of the prospective relationship makes difficult an adequate appreciation of the generosity and foresight which placed Harvard among the beneficiaries of the bequest and the recipients of scholastic stimulus...
Very recently in the London Daily Herald, James Ramsay MacDonald, former premier and present Labor leader, expressed some views on the relationship of the New World with the old. Mr. MacDonald made two suggestions. The first is that it is foolish to believe that international differences are non-existent, and the ex-premier feels that a "nasty frame of mind is growing up" which must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby...
...Hooton, associate professor of Anthropology, will deal with the relationship between anthropology and crime. The extent of this relation is soon to be shown in the results of a general survey in conjunction with the State Department of the physical characteristics of criminals in several states. Among the aspects of crime with which Professor Hooton will deal are the questions of the existence of criminal types, the relationship between physical and mental characteristics, the importance of racial factors, and the influence of heredity...
...would be difficult to imagine a relationship less susceptible of statistical treatment than that of scholarship and athletics. An ill educational dictum it it, however, that does not blow some sporting columnist ten inches of copy: The truly unfortunate part of the attack is not that it discovers in track a sport that has pushed football out of the cellar position in the academic pennant race, even though such discovery may prove a hardship to many article writers. Grave astonishment is the natural reaction to the unsportsmanlike conduct of the Carnegie Institute. The athlete, helpless under what has been called...