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...made for the advantages of such a change, but the argument would be superficial. There are, Dr. Erskine points out, "a few ideas, a few problems which belong to all time." And it is with these problems that the universities should be most deeply concerned. Their task is to sift the vital knowledge of the ages from the dust of its dead framework...
...course, if you don't give us our due meed of praise in your valuable publication I shall be forced to perform a painful duty when next 1 visit your seaport: that is to shoot you so full of holes they can sift baled hay through...
...Manchester Guardian quoted "the editor of one of the earliest of South African newspapers" on how to bag lions in the Kalahari Desert, as follows: ''The Kalahari is principally composed of sand and lions. First sift the sand through a large sieve, when only the lions will remain. These you place in a bag carried for the purpose...
...healthy thing because it increases the emphasis placed upon the individual. In years past it was possible to give the few students a conventional polish and send them out into the world. Now with so many to instruct, it is not only advisable, but also necessary to "assay and sift" the multitudes. The various experiments that are being tried all over the United States are evidence of the soundness of the Chancellor's arguments. If the systems recently inaugurated at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Rollins, and other universities are successful, they will lead not only to a more thorough education...
...degree got her a position on the staff of the city's Psychiatric Clinic, first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition...