Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicity they are receiving. The leaders, Smith, Hoover, and Dawes, although supported by popular favour and influential backing, have authorized no movement, and are still quietly at work. Yesterday, however. Ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois announced his intention of carrying the wheat belt in the interests of farm relief. Governor Ritchie's speech making tours have carried him from Maryland. Senators Reed and Curtis have made known their aspirations. But on the whole, the campaigns are still in the hands of party leaders, and recent speeches of Messrs. McAdoo and Roosevelt have called attention to the difficulties that...
...secondary schools are loaded so heavily with requirements outside the practice of the European lycees because our life, our industry, our practical achievements demand and exact that condition. Nor can we change the situation so long as this difference between the European and the American culture exists. Perhaps the relief for the colleges to which President Lowell looks forward will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with...
...danger was felt of losing our best men if they could not be given a better opportunity for these things. They were asked whether limiting the time when their pupils might confer with them to certain hours of the day or certain days of the week would give relief, but they replied that, so long as the regular routine of the college proceeded, their relations of friendliness and helpfulness to their pupils would be marred by any thing that resembled closing their doors. It was then suggested that certain periods of the term should be marked off in which instruction...
...education being to train men to train themselves-a purpose which President Lowell has repeatedly stressed this method is looked upon as an aid to that end. Incidentally, it will reduce the formal teaching period to about the length of that in the English universities, and will give some relief to teachers upon whom increasing burdens have been laid by the more intensive following of the work of the individual students and by the obligation to carry on researches in their own field...
...planning of the reading, in advance, by the instructors; reasonable restriction of the amount of reading and its definite relation to the courses which the student is following. The peril to the student is that he may regard this free time till the examination comes as a period of relief from work or may dawdle the greater part of it and then "cram". But most of the students are at an age when they should be ready to take responsibility with its attendant risks...