Word: eclecticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelations of fake medical diplomas in the Middle West (TIME, Nov. 5) have reverberated in Connecticut, where Governor Charles A. Templeton called an extraordinary grand jury to look into the status of 200 Connecticut physicians, and in a public address foreshadowed "the greatest scandal in the history of the state...
...Eclecticism. There are a number of "eclectic" medical schools in the U. S., invariably of low grade, which aim to select and teach methods of value from all schools. They are gradually dying...
While yet "The Mirrors of Downing Street" and "the Glass of Fashion" are being widely discussed as something more worth while than the effervescence of "the Grandmother of the Flapper" or the diaric bombast of Colonel Repington there comes another books from the pen of A Gentleman With a Duster...
In laying his finger on the weaknesses of present day drams. Professor Baker yesterday also raised an interesting point in connection with the purpose of drama itself. He pointed out that the great dramatic of America today is a good theatre, giving good plays to an audience of eclectic taste...