Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is probably true that the number of students in American colleges is too high. In order to decrease this number, however, the class to be eliminated must first be designated. It would be obviously unfair to make the classification on the basis of financial resources. If a scholastic barrier...
The case against compulsory exercise, as presented by the student waiters, is as follows: "The primary interest at Harvard lies in attaining a high scholastic standing. We believe that in a striving to reach that goal, all possible time should be spent in pursuing regular studies without lowering the standard...
The petition states that this additional exercise injures scholastic standing both by taking time which might otherwise be used for study and by lowering the health of the waiters so that they are exhausted at the end of the day. "We have been burning the candle at both ends long...
As for the word Aryan, it is a fine one for the experts to quarrel over. I think to the average reader it means that the Germans want Germans for their neighbors and business and scholastic associates. Why quibble about that, or the word German, or Nordic, or Teutonic. They...
And even suppose that the German universities were destroyed, and the professors with them. It might not amount to much as opposed to the dynamics of history. The poor people who would be left might not speak in the scholastic sense, with authority, but they might, as they have done...