Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vaudeville" of Mr. H. L. Mencken and pointing out the ineffectuality of modern American criticism, hastens to show that the unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds in being distinctly more pessimistic and convincing than his arch-opponent in the lists of contemporary criticism...
...Second School represented at the Conference desires to burst through the bureaucratic, stereotyped agenda. An ardent "Second Schooler'' is President Isidore Ayora of Ecuador. His words: "It is necessary to step from verbal and declamatory Pan-Americanism to ... . concrete Pan-Americanism ... to the effective and total recognition of identical rights for all American states . . . repelling the possibility that there may exist or could exist, governments or peoples that domineer...
Confronting the aimed and calculated thrusts of a logician, the Reverend John Roach Straton, D. D., salient fundamentalist and divine, went down to defeat at the hands of Professor R. C. Givler, Ph.D. '14, of the Department of Psychology at Tufts College, in a verbal duel staged last night in the Living Room of the Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure...
...weakening of either. The pure lecture program gives the student only one form of expression for his ideas,--the written paper. The tutor cannot cover all the detail incidental to a full college course. The ideal solution is a combination of the two in which both written and verbal discussion of his field are available to the student...
...Under the system in force at the University before the tutorial system began," Professor Eaton said, "the student's final thesis represented a careful written exposition of his subject. Under the tutorial system, the thesis is discussed with the tutor before it is written, so that a verbal expression of ideas, with the consequent rounding of knowledge, precedes and shapes the written expression...