Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Workshop has been successful from its first inception; but with the announcement of its new policy, it has entered upon an even greater epoch in its career...
...fault of the college. After a well phrased statement of this lamentable situation, Mr. Colby wisely withdraws. Perhaps at this point he became aware of certain difficulties which escaped Mr. Chapin's observation: that if we are to lift the colleges we must first lift the epoch on which the colleges are superimposed; that the colleges are not poisoning education; that the colleges and education are poisoned together at the wells of modern civilization. For beneath all isolated mistakes lies the common ground of a sophisticated and second-rate age, an age critical but not creative, impulsive but not inspired...
...report of the President's second industrial conference marks an epoch. It is the first attempt on the part of a central representative authority in the United States to draw up a code of industrial relations. By asking for suggestions from the country, the conference obtained the opinions of numbers of men and organizations who did not actually participate, so that the report may fairly be considered representative of the best that the country can contribute...
...must one neglect the great oases in the desert. Lecturers like those of Haskins and Kittredge at Harvard, of Farrand at Yale, of Morse Stephens at California, of Gildersleeve at Johns Hopkins, have marked a great epoch in American education. They have been something more than careful digests of accessible information. There has gone into them the living blood of rich personality, and the student is a different personality for having heard them. And there are special subjects, like psychology and logic, which are taught in America with a like and equipment unequalled in England...
...live today in an era of political unrest and consequently political intolerance. The people of the Middle Ages lived in an epoch of religious intolerance. We now learn that they were wrong; let us take care lest posterity judge of us as we judge of the Age of Darkness. Then some humans were mentally favored beyond their contemporaries, and preached ideas realized only much later; whatever of folly was proposed by them lost its bearing and fell away, but whatever of good was championed by them has survived and has pushed man on in his development. If these Reds have...