Word: directs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...quite within the range of possibilities are very terrible dangers. If the states must follow the policy laid down by the National Department of Education in order to enjoy the nation's largess, it is quite within the power of a dominating secretary or a bureaucratic department to direct the education of young America in lines far from truth. It is said that the proposed bill is likely to pass Congress. In order that we may make sure and safe on honest and democratic education, we must see to it that national aid and guidance be combined with absolute local...
There are many boys in Boston who want nothing so badly as the opportunity to play a game of basketball and form a club: a club with its own officers which can plan its own work and amusements. They need only a leader to direct their energies. There are many older boys and young men who are no longer able to attend school, and yet have only begun to learn. They need some one to guide their reading and conduct classes. Then there is that large number of foreigners, many of whom have been here for years and are still...
...discussion groups would offer us this opportunity. Many of us have grown up in a certain political and social atmosphere and our minds have been limited by false prejudices, Direct contact, however, with new points of view through the medium of informal meetings would broaden our outlook and give our true natures the chance to reveal themselves...
This reveals a condition of things which we had hoped would never arise in an American university, namely, the carrying over of military distinction into academic life. The great rallying cry of the Allies has been, "Make the world safe for Democracy." Surely no more direct refutation of this basic principle of equality could be possible than in singling out certain war heroes to receive honor from their Alma Mater, and leaving others unhonored and unsung. It is not difficult to appreciate the feelings of the enlisted man who, after sacrificing his studies to serve his country, returns to find...
...Discussion Groups are designed to stimulate and direct the habit of accurate thinking in the student in regard to the pros and cons of current problems. Members of the groups are guided in the discussions by volunteers from the Faculty, who are well qualified to present the problems in their true forms, stripped of interested prejudice and popular fallacies. The large variety of national and international questions available for consideration assures an abundance of excellent subject matter. Not only will members of the groups increase their understanding of affairs of current discussion in the press, but they will derive benefit...