Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article entitled "The Revolt Against Education," written by Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin, appears in the current issue of The Nation...
...Finance Minister in the two Cabinets preceding his own, Dr. Stresemann's (TlME Oct. 15. 1923) and Dr. Marx's (TlME Dec. 10, 1923), his regime covered the inception of the Dawes Plan (TlME, June 16,1924), the suppression of the Rhineland Separatist revolt (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923), the squelching of Ludendorff's "Beer Hall Revolt" (TlME, Nov.19, 1923) and h i s acquittal of a charge of treason (TlME, April 7, 1924), the death of Hugo Stinnes which toppled his industrial Tsardom (TlME, April 21, 1924), the election of the present Reichstag - the Communists being repudiated...
...spring of 1925 things began to happen in the colleges. First of all, a widespread chapel revolt, broke loose. Paper after paper, from Yale to the University of Southern California, took up the issue. Phrases like this were flaunted under the noses of the deans: "Religious compulsion is a contradiction in terms. . . ." "You can beat a student to his knees, but you cannot make him pray." "We have a body of men who go to chapel under protest to sleep, read, or merely to sit in bovine passiveness while the choir sings and the leader reads and prays." So effective...
...articles in the current issue of The Nation concern themselves with the question of higher education. Glenn Frank discusses the "Revolt Against Education" and suggests a method by which the colleges may more adequately effect some progress against the huge flood of learning which is now engulfing them. Professor Mussey of Wellesley has another and more personal suggestion. Both are, each in his own way, attempting to outline one particular flaw in the present college system. And both, therefore, are merely polishing facets of a large and imposing, many faceted jewel. Yet even such isolated endeavors are in their fashion...
President Frank says in his opening paragraphs that "we are witnessing today both the collapse of our curricula from structural overloading and the beginnings of a student revolt against the sterilities of current academic procedure." And he sees no happy exit from the enigma in further curricular jugglings. Bringing pragmatism into education, he would replace as much of the historical survey work of general fields as is now given by courses which would deal more with situations than with subjects. To understand how a nation or civilization met situations similar to those which now face the citizen of the modern...