Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A commonplace reaction to the work of scholastic specialists in some obscure field of knowledge is an expression of amazement at so much time and labor spent on the dusty and the dead. In answer it must be said that it is by such dusty and often seemingly irrelevant detail...
A writer in the Saturday Review of Literature has commented on the weekend exodus from colleges with less satire and more acumen than was displayed in a recent article on the same subject in the Harkness Hoot. Various expedients have been suggested recently to relieve the tedium of the average...
It must be admitted, however, that the critical study of entrance methods is still in an embryonic stage. No clearcut substitute for college boards has been officially adopted, and perhaps the ultimate decision will be that college boards should stand for a while, but should be supplemented with other tests...
It is our conviction that this cardinal principle, the adjustment of the college to life, has been ignored in the development of an extra-curricular program at City. We have stoutly defended the cause of extra-scholastic activities in these columns, because we believe that education is not so much...
"During each of the last two years approximately 15,000 men have applied for admission to the various medical schools in the United States and Canada. Of this number only slightly more than 7,000 could be admitted on account of lack of facilities for taking care of more. Of...