Word: scientificism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"America's tremendous material prosperity will come to nothing if the training of future citizenship is neglected," he continued. "Apply the same scientific intelligence to improvement of human beings that we devote to improving material things, and we need not fear the future."
Colleges, Professor Rogers said, "worshipped marks", but he added that an A.B. degree merely indicated that the student had agreed with his professors during his four years at school, Grades make a battleground of the classroom, he said, and are a "disgrace to scientific education and must be done away...
"Humanism's" tenets, described as new, inspiring, scientific, proved to be tangential, vague. "Humanists unanimously agree in rejecting the supernatural. This is the great dividing line between them and all other religions of today. . . . So fundamental is the distinction between supernatural religion and Humanism, that there are those who...
Another Australian, by adoption, is Sir Douglas Mawson. In his native Yorkshire fashion he is as handsome as Commander Byrd in his Virginia fashion. Sir Douglas knows the Antarctic better than does Sir Hubert or Commander Byrd. In 1907, when he was a scientific lecturer at Adelaide University, Australia, he...
A great builder of bridges is Ralph Modjeski and honored last week with his sixth scientific medal. But, except for his own stubborn leaning to engineering and his fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena...