Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today the newer methods of instruction respect the intelligences of the students quite as highly as they respect the intelligences of the teachers. These methods consist concretely in constructing typical situations in which the minds of students are put to it to find solutions. And when the student fails, then is the psychological moment for the teacher -- he suggests ways out of the difficulty. The hope is that the student will leap at suggestions because his mind has already fumbled for them, feels a definite need for them, and so sees their significance. This is the new conception...
Stingier than Scotsmen, Swiss taxpayers make it their business to enforce respect for the property of Swiss Federal Railways which they acutely feel to be their own. Last week one Christine Maple, a pretty Los Angeles young woman on her way from St. Moritz to Paris, stanchly resisted the efforts of Swiss passengers to make her take her feet off the opposite seat. When the train pulled into Zurich the enraged Swiss handed her to a Swiss gendarme who handed her to a Swiss judge who fined her 50 Swiss francs...
These are well chosen to tickle reminiscence. And in this respect, Mr. Allen's comments too, are above reproach. If they are informal, if often they take on the questionnaire aspect of the minor parlor sports, one can only conclude that they represent the spirit and the intent of the book. Perhaps when the garish and unsubstantial covers have worn a little, and when references to 1933 appear not quite so obvious and so dignified as at present, the editors may feel some compunction that much effort and fine printing have been spent on a work largely devoted to temporary...
...Regarding Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations, I do not feel that I could say it has brought her any closer to the United States. It is, however, clear that Germany by her withdrawal from the League has placed herself, with respect to that organization, in the same situation which is occupied by the United States of America. If the United States is in the position to co-operate with the League in an endeavor to bring about disarmament, the same possibility will be open for Germany, in case a serious effort in that direction should eventually...
...approaching crisis. Strikes and lockouts are symptoms of it which only the "ignorant and uninformed" can watch untroubled. The Yale branch of the National Student League may have been rash, although I do not think so; they may have risked their academic futures too recklessly, although we must respect them for doing...