Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This shift of weight from chiefly rhetorical training to an introduction to literature is significant in its substitution of college education proper for preparatory school features. It presupposes more scholastic training in composition and prepares to make its further training in composition more a reflection of literary appreciation than the product of rules well-learned...
...ultimate consequences of this shift of emphasis concerning the individual student will become, if the new tendency is long continued, very extensive. It can scarcely fall to exert a modifying effect upon the whole structure of American college education. Less and less faith will be placed, for example, in the importance of lectures, and more and more regard will be given to all those efforts which the student is led to undertake largely upon his own initiative to wit, energetic collateral and "outside" reading, debate among his fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities...
...future, the editors insist must be of the cautious, experimental type, a state of mind based not upon identification with a specific program, but upon the study of life and social processes. Militant liberalism rarely thrives unless it is given the impetus of hard times or a favorable shift in ordinary economic conditions. And the prosperous condition of industry in general has practically extinguished any lingering sparks of Promethean vigor at present...
Lieutenant R. D. Thomas chief of the United States Naval Reserve Air Station at Squantum, will be in charge of the course this year. Lieutenant Thomas received the Shift Trophy for Safe Flying, which was recently presented by President Coolidge. He is credited with flying 500 hours without accident last year, the best record in the history of the naval air service...
...time was spent in imparting the rudiments of languages; and his working hours were longer than most people's. But his sturdy, sunny optimism never repined. More in accordance with his talents was a course in Middle High German which he had an opportunity to give before his complete shift to his favorite Romance field...