Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization I. Educators, or the best of them, know of the disease, and are attacking it; but quietly, perhaps unconsciously, students are themselves making the greatest inroads. They are doing so through increased participation in extracurricular activities...
...many would run, not walk, to the nearest exit. But the fact remains. Here, cramming is rare; tutoring schools, so incredible as to be ridiculous; ghost-writing, pointless. Here is the "essence of the educational process" which "furnishes the student with the tools to learn and the will to know...
Less time than usual has been provided for getting the team ready for its first meet, which will be against the M.I.T. Freshmen on December 15. Peterson expects to know the best or the worst by the end of the week when the whole squad will have been timed...
...seems important to know who will rule us after we win this difficult war. Re articles in the Read Digest Dec. '39 p. 5, N.Y. Times June '30 F 9, N. Y. Post June 8 '34 N. Y. Sun Nov. 18 '33 edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort...
...hangman in the Kremlin has yanked the trap door from under the feet of those die-hard idealists who thought that the new Russia was a religion, a state transecuded by a burning desire to bring peace on earth, good will to men. Soviet Russia, these disillusioned folk know now, is as lustful and cruel as her neighbors. Like her neighbors, she must look first of all to her own security and power. Nations have always committed murder and rape while quoting the Bible or the Declaration of Independence. But while France and England can fight to save their empires...