Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position of a member of the Yale team, reported yesterday, is very distinctly in favor of courses more difficult than those demanded at present of the honors man, who alone has the privilege of concentrating his work in a particular field. There is also implicated a request that every student should choose, as at Harvard, a field of concentration: this attitude, together with approving words for the tutorial system, is indication that Yale has been stirred to sincere self-inspection...
...representative group of Harvard students will attend the Northfield Student Conference at East Northfield from June 15 to 23, at which men from several New England colleges and universities are to meet for discussions of problems of interest to college...
From sleepy medieval Innsbruck the local Italian consul, Signer Riccardi, telephoned tempestuously last week to Rome. Austrian students, he cried, had just wrenched down the flag of Italy from its staff before his window. The vandals! The Austrian swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight...
...concept of philosophy to become an educator. He is one of the greatest. His small volume School and Society (1899) caused world wide repercussions among pedants, pedagogs & preceptors. His lectures at Peking, while he held an exchange professorship there in 1919-20, wrought profoundest effects upon Chinese students ?and in China it was the "student move-ment" which produced the present Nationalist Government (see CHINA) now exerting authority over two-thirds of Cathay...
...monument of a dying faith, it is, in its very hugeness, pathetic. The faith of the elders that saw its erection is staunch and living, and it is evident that its intense beauty will cause a Sunday fervor among the undergraduates. But in the student mind of the day, that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic. It is not, of course, the conscious eating of a pot of honey of the grave. But still, if the free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking...