Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several educators have tried to remedy the present situation by teaching in their schools shop-work, drawing, and music, and by placing these subjects where they belong,--on an equal basis with Greek, Latin, and History. The chief obstacle is the college entrance system. Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject...
...Abbott thinks that the schoolboy should early specialize along one line of education and not acquire a mere smattering of many subjects. He also emphatically recommends the placing of athletics on an absolutely equal basis with scholarship. Admitting that he is a "radical in education," he says the function of a school is to form character, and the highest aim of every preparatory school is to turn out a man who can stand four-square against every wind that blows. Therefore he regards the attainment of scholarship as only one great means of developing character...
...other great impetus to form character is athletics. If I had my way, I would place athletics on an equal basis with scholarship in every school and college in the country. I would require the teachers of all branches of athletics to be men of the same high moral character as the teachers of Intellectual subjects, and would place the two groups on an absolute equality in salary and social standing. In other words, athletics would be made as much a part of the curriculum of every school and college as mathematics, etc. And extra-curriculum activities, which...
...United States government has at last returned to a normal basis of finance where its expenditures approximately equal its income," said Governor Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve System in a recent interview as to financial conditions in this country. Governor Strong is one of the best-known of America's financiers, and, although he cannot predict definitely for the coming year because of his official position, he is inclined to believe that 1920 will prove a year of prosperity for America...
...room, so do the changes in foreign exchange regulate the international trade. The effect necessarily reacts on the cause and will without doubt control it later. We will see prices come down when the exchange rates are more nearly even and when the imports to this country more nearly equal our present tremendous exports...