Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgment, a course in English composition is not doing its job if it does not lay on the student the duty of some self-scrutiny. If the student meets this opportunity by writing inconsequential papers typified by your imaginary subject, "What I Did This Summer," I think the student must be held largely responsible for this particular failure in education...
...belief in the principle of General Education is evidenced, I think, by the fact that during the last four or five years I have, with the collaboration of my staff, moved English A itself steadily in the direction of General Education. Particularly in the second half year, after trying in the first half year to lay down some fundamentals of composition, we have tried to teach writing in relation to the study of texts which we thought worth close discussion in the classroom. Theodore Morrison, Director of English...
...great mass of the people have ever been really injured by the operation of the great rule of unlimited debate . . . I submit that there is no more important mile anywhere than the rule under which the Senate so admirably operated for more than a hundred years. In fact, I think that in some ways it is even more important than the very terms of the Constitution itself in preserving the Republic . . . If this resolution is adopted, who will be the first on the list to feel its wrath! . . . It will be the South . . . Is big business next on the list...
...about ten million dollars a year in government payment for education and subsistence. Although his assistant, Miss Margaret Witt, handles nine-tenths of the routine red tape difficulties familiar to all veterans, there are enough left over to keep him busy six days a week. "Just when you think you've got everything caught up and running on schedule, the top blows off some new problem and before you know it the whole detail is fouled up again," he explains...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...