Word: diffusionism
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The central attraction in the April number of the Monthly, out today, is a carefully written and thoughtful analysis of the "Dramas of Herman Sudermann," by Gaillard T. Lapsley. After critically reviewing the principal plays of that author, the writer characterizes Suderman as powerful, though ineffective through diffusion. The coarseness...
A short account of the University extension movement in this country may be of interest. It was started in 1890 by Dr. William Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, to afford a system of instruction for adults, embracing lecture courses, with classes, exercises, examinations and certificates. The American Society...
In considering how funds can be raised with the least interference with the moral and material development of the citizen, we must eliminate the objectionable methods and reduce the problem to its simplest form. The first principle is that all inquisitorial and arbitrary methods are abhorrent to the people and...
The only possibility of progress rests on the diffusion of education. The influence of Christian colonies may become more effective, and stimulate a desire for something better. Islam, however, best snits the national character. The people must have some religion, but no other form is likely to be adopted. A...
Facts are stubborn things, so are figures, perhaps, because they form the especial and appropriate language of facts, as imagery forms that of thought. One of the many facts that show us the vastness of the world is the existence of newspapers, for they imply by their very being such...