Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Says the Encyclopedia Britannica: "Everywhere, and especially in the interior, the winter lasts very long and early frosts (June 12-14, 1892) often destroy the crops...
...there is a difference, just the same. The International, which was started in 1901 by a bishop of the Re-formed Episcopal Church and entitled Current Encyclopedia, later The World Today, was acquired by Publisher Hearst in 1911. In 1912, it became Hearst's International, still devoted to current events but with an admixture of fiction. The current events element was gradually replaced by ax-grinding articles?now for Matrimony, now for Health, now for the White Collar Ideal, now for Judaism. In this it took over the crusading functions of the Cosmopolitan (founded in 1886 and bought...
...desk of the main reading room, yesterday "is that often a single volume of a series is stolen, and then the library usually has to buy an entire new set in order to replace just one volume. Recently, several volumes of Emerson's journals and one of the International Encyclopedia have been pilfered, and it will probably cost the library close to a hundred dollars to replace them...
General editor of the series is James T. Shotwell of Columbia, whose most notable service in an active career as author and editor was a year's work in London (1904-05) on the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...universities became gristmills of fact, which ground small the meal of knowledge and then stuffed it into the puppet's head. More recently, educators have begun to recognize that the method of searching out, weighing, and using the facts which life presents to men is more important than any encyclopedia of knowledge. The ability to grasp and reason with experiential fact is supposed to be developed by the testing and teaching of a college course. Naturally the emphasis has been shifted from the body of facts to the method of using them, but Messrs. Mencken and Nathan are merely shadow...