Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...particular, adequate discussion of great international questions. It will be animated by a spirit of progress, will welcome and promote needed projects of social improvement, but will insist upon the maintenance of those things which must be preserved if the nation is to remain a people of self-reliant freemen. The publication of "The Review' has been actuated by a recognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation...
...present-day dramatists. In the longer play of this week we find more traits of excellence, if not always fully developed at least suggested. It is the second in a series of plays which shall be increasingly good as the author becomes through experience freer and more self-reliant...
...will differ from that in the ordinary course, in that, the student, under the direction and advice of his instructor, will be thrown upon his own initiative. The courses will therefore aim not only to acquaint a man thoroughly with his chosen subject, but to make him more self-reliant and independent in his judgments. Against American education, in general, the criticism may be brought that the students depend too much upon what is told them, upon memory rather than thought. It is necessary to recognize authority but it is also of the highest importance to discover upon what foundations...