Word: tends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much to destroy the suspicions or even hostile attitude toward student interest in his own education with which the new awakening was at first greeted in official quarters. It is a well known psychological fact that movements such as these. If actively discouraged, ignored, or condemned, become subversive. They tend, in other words, to be merely destructive criticism, or wild-eyed and impractical idealism: The very fear which prompts the suppression complex is realized. The more professional educators realize this, and the more they lend their active interest and encouragement, the more this undergraduate movement will be productive of sane...
Certain, colleges, tend to stamp their mark on the students that attend these institutions. They cannot entirely equalize individual differences but they can make an undergraduate body enough of a unit so that it has different qualities from that of another college. The same environment, the same method of instruction, similar customs and traditions tend to form a whole from a heterogeneous mass of preparatory and high school graduates...
...reformed German schools tend to awaken a new feeling of brotherhood, and to overcome the differences of feeling between the aristocrats and the working boys. One innovation for creating a greater mutual understanding among all the students is a monthly all-day hike, which brings the teacher and his pupils very close together. But above all the new gymnasium teaches its students to recognize the meaning of a true culture of the mind...
...them all will be to show that the common foundation for art and in great measure the inspiration for it has been religious ecstacy. The emotion that drives men to create beautiful things is basically the same as that which makes them worship a diety. The symposium will tend to bring out the fact that art is a form of worship...
...blight. Youth should not be cut off; it should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...