Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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This study, then, lacks that breadth and temperance which made Willard Huntington Wright's "The Man of Promise" worth a second printing. It is too hysterical for repetition. Sincerity is the only positive element which stands forth as a distinctive mark of the author. The adventures of Lewis are true to form, the duality of imagination and action is developed along the usual lines. The title, and the use of the obelisk as a symbol, have only a tenuous bond with the solid flesh of the story. The sincerity of the narration and the freedom from sophisticated or psychological patter...
Forum, with its 90,000 circulation and bountiful advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...problem of transition from secondary school to college doubtless the most important element is the adjustment of the individual to a new environment, a different routine, and in most cases a greater freedom of decision and action. The latter is likely to be regarded as a liberation from a more restricted past rather than as an opportunity and a responsibility for a permanently satisfying future. I would emphasize this the more because I have neither space nor qualification to elaborate upon it. My contribution to the discussion is better confined to another element, the relation between the curriculum of secondary...
...speaking of cooperation between school and college I have not meant to overlook the more vital element of cooperation on the part of the student. The theory that a subject is good for a boy because it is hard and distasteful has long been discredited. The subjects which are difficult and abstract should indeed be taught in as interesting a manner as possible; and the boy whose inaptitude for them has been clearly demonstrated should not be forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless...
...second. The clock is still in an experimental state, but maintains a constant rate with an error of about 1-10 of a second per day. Modifications are constantly being introduced in the hope of finding further improvements. He has also a clock making use as its timing element of the longitudinal vibrations of a bar of steel driven by magnetostrietion. This second type of clock produces alternating currents with a constant frequency of 1,000 cycles per second which then pass to a synchronous motor operating the hands. The two clocks are automatically compared by writing the seconds...