Word: myth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oxford Tutorial System a Myth...
...chief complaint, however, against Dr. Brinton is that he perpetuates, although in quotation marks, the myth of the "Oxford tutorial system". Until I reached this country I was not aware that I was a cog of any such imposing machine. I had imagined hitherto that I was living and working in an academic and therefore respectable anarchy, in which tutors and pupils were at the mercy of each others' whims and weaknesses--a situation which engenders self-reliance if nothing else. But in America I have been asked to formulate methods and recite the Tutorial Code and Catechism...
Compulsory military training at subsidized colleges has long oppressed students, yet it was not until very recently that investigation proved that the element of compulsion was only a militaristic myth. In institutions of learning subsidized under the Morrill land-grant act, the law requires that "the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and in including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." Legal advice indisputably shows that the law, therefore, requires only that military training be offered...
...tries to laugh aside as a joke this great monument of intellectual advancement becomes himself ridiculous. It is food for the loftiest thought. Here, as everywhere else, the revelations of science have proved, beyond comparison, more uplifting and inspiring than any product of the human imagination, such as the myth about Adam...
Prove that plaints on the food have been only a myth...