Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Charlemagne introduced Jewish Christianity into Germany," began the General with a baleful glare. "He destroyed the ancient Teutonic faith in Wodan. . . . Behind all our troubles lie Charlemagne and the Pope...
This excessively ancient title, now revived, recalls that a "leader of an army" was once a voevod (pronounced vo-ye-vod). In vain last week-Professor Nicolae lorga, once Carol's tutor, warned Parliament that the title came straight out of a Viennese operetta. Unmoved, the deputies and senators rested on their labors, some pointing out that "Grand Voevod" could be translated "Grand Duke...
From a college examination paper in English which has just come to me--the final examination in sophomore English at Yale College--we may believe that examinations are conducted in the ancient fashion of putting a premium on the memorizing of obscure passages, on cramming rather than on knowledge. I do not know whether this is the fault of Yale or of the instructor who plans the course. In my day at the University of Chicago instructors seemed to have much influence. Stodgy professors examined us in the minutiae of English literature; far-sighted men such as Robert Morss Lovett...
...these additional two points. The preparatory school crams its students because the requirements of the college force it to do so. It has a certain number of subjects in which it must provide preparation, regardless of their inclinations. The candidate for college entrance must pass an examination in an ancient language and a science. In order to do this, his last year in secondary school must be devoted to preparing for these tests at the expense of a study of other subjects that would undoubtedly contribute more to his education. The result has been that the attention of secondary education...
...things for which we no longer fight. But when a populace becomes indifferent to its freedom, it begins to lose it." Liberty, once a matter of politics, has now become an affair of individual psychology. "Would you be free? Then first become civilized. To understand this bit of ancient wisdom is to distinguish the true liberal from his vociferous imitator." The struggle for freedom, says Author Martin, is a conflict of cultural values. Romantic ideas such as Rousseau made popular and hoped to make universal are as inimical to the cause of liberty as any other form of intolerance. Tolerance...