Word: handiwork
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...determining the different phases of the subject upon which greater or less stress should be placed; of selecting more than a score of authors to whom the compilation of the individual volumes has been entrusted; and of coordinating the whole into a homogeneous unit. Efforts to fuse together the handiwork of several literary craftsmen have not as a rule been wholly satisfactory: the outcome has too often been an encyclopoedic production, abounding in gaps and marred by glaring unevenness in quality. In The American Nation, however, Professor Hart has made it his editorial duty to have the various links...
...preparation for a narrow and personal success, and with danger of giving him ideas on the subject that are radically wrong. Life has many activities, and men should be educated to take an intelligent interest in political and educational problems. "We are specialists," says Professor Munsterberg, "in our handiwork, but our heart-work, is uniform, and the demand for individualized education ignores the great similarities." The system of education which produces this uniformity of interests must be under the direction of an experienced faculty. Such a system is being organized at Princeton, and already exists in slightly altered forms...
...playing the double role of a place for general education and a workshop for professional training, but at least the high school ought to be faithful to its only goal of general education without professional anticipations. The division of labor lies on the outside; we are specialists in our handiwork, but our heart-work is uniform, and the demand for individualized education emphasizes the small differences in our tasks, and ignores the great similarities. And finally, who is able to say what a boy of twelve years will need for his individual life's work...
...obeying without the minutest deviation, every requirement of the laws, are always beautiful as the light, so his own life, should it follow the commands of its Creator, might break loose from the ugliness and deformity that disobedience has produced, and become the grandest piece of all God's handiwork...
...Blaschka, father and son, who are the only persons in the world who can do this kind of work. The models are made entirely of blown glass, and the modelling and coloring are so exquisitely perfect that Nature must almost wonder whether they are not indeed of her own handiwork. Of each species represented, there is shown not only the natural appearance and characteristics of the flower, of the leaves, stem. etc, but also such details as are important for the proper understanding of its fundamental structure and its place in the system of classification. The details too minute...