Word: spiritedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...society, any step toward the cloistering of knowledge or toward its segregation from what is practical, should be discouraged. The Law School investigation, on the other hand, becomes an example of the highest service which a university can hope to render. It bears a close kinship to the spirit which has imbued the American graduate school in its recent development. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of this application by a university of its expert minds to the solution of problems which affect equally each unit of the society in which they arise...
...nation", continued the speaker, who has attained a high degree of prominence in Europe as a student of the modern drama particularly, "but rather a group of 65 million people striving for individualism. To bind this mass the German government acts as a huge vise. This lack of community spirit is due largely to the 27 political parties which flourish in Germany today and to the large number of religious creeds. The dominant note is so largely that of individualism that there are no social sciences taught in the schools and universities. The watchword of the German social life today...
Germany Lacks Spirit of Cohesion...
...Overcrowded intellectualism, poor health, and weak nerves characterize schools and universities today", continued Dr. Kellerman. "In the German universities, there are no regular classes, no class spirit, and no college spirit. The professors read technical, scientific lectures and are indifferent as to whether the students attend or not. Faculty meetings are unheard of, the professors being engrossed with their own studies. In neither the Gymnasium nor the universities does one find any form of extra-curricular activities. Parties, social gatherings, clubs, and other forms of group recreation are seldom found to exist in any of the higher institutions of learning...
...will be put as "justification for the step." It goes on to say: "The greater the number of undergraduates competing in some form of athletic endeavor the better it will be for the college and for amateur sport in general. What to some may seem an intensification of the spirit of commercialism may possibly bring quite different results...