Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have desired. The college is free from taxation and from practically all obitgation to serve the community in any way. Its conditions of residence permit a twenty-four hour control of the life of its citizens and the almost total absence of external criticism permits the development of attitude toward life which are the results of hypotheses submitted only to the college forum for review. At any given moment in any American college anything, theoretically, disposable...
...system of college government. From the paternalistic system there comes the postponement of important decisions by the student. From this postponement of important decisions there follows immaturity, irresponsibility and preoccupation with trivial rather than important issues. I firmly believe that if the American college will adopt a different attitude toward the student this circle will be reversed. Adopt the attitude of trust and the faculty will become colleagues rather than governors of the students. Faced with the necessity of governing their own conduct the students will become responsible. In acquring responsibility they will no longer be amused by the more...
Upon these two hypotheses, then, that faculties and students should be colleagues rather than master and man, and that the way to get a responsible attitude toward study is to grant responsibility in the conduct and choice of study, would propose certain fields for investigation by the National Student Federation. All of them are debatable fields lying between organized activities. All of them need, it seems to me, the most careful cooperation between faculty and students, if that vitalizing of the courses of study which we all desire is to result. These fields are; (1) the student and his support...
...amount of real truth in George Jean Nathan's whimsical article in Vanity Fair, "The American Attitude Toward England", is amazing. Mr. Nathan attempts rather successfully to prove that, sentimentally at least, the citizens of the United States are the natural enemies of England and friends of Germany. He cites boyhood memories, all attesting the benevolence of German cooks, saloon keepers and policemen--the era of the latter type being previous to the Irish invasion. The result is that one recalls the Germans as delightful people and the English as the national opponents...
...mechanics or its superficial aspects that such evidence may primarily be based, although they are significant. Last summer this writer was impressed by the attitude of older men toward the Confederation International des Students at its annual conference in Prague. Foreign Minister Dense of Czechoslovakia, for example, leading statesman of Central Europe, considered this student organization of sufficient value to devote to its representatives his house, his dinner table, and his serious interest. Similarly older, more experienced, and outstanding educational leaders have, as it were, gone out of their way to give evidence of their serious support of the Federation...