Word: learne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evolution of the animal depends on the development of the upper brain: the greater the development the more complicated the conditioned reflexes become. The ability to learn by experience, which is simply a matter of conditioning the reflexes, increases; the animal can adjust to ever more varied environments. Man has the most intricately convoluted upper brain of the whole animal kingdom and can therefore adapt himself to a wide range of conditions...
...professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post at Lawrenceville Academy. He has divulged the title of his new novel to come, "The Woman of Andros" and will sail for Europe early in July, obstensibly to write it, probably to get away from friends who want to know what it is all about...
There is no novelty in students telling instructors how to run their courses; but when the instructor goes to the student for such information, one finds a certain refreshing willingness to learn all too frequently lacking in teachers. Whether or not the instructor can learn something in this way is still an open question, if one may judge from the "Suggestion Book of History I" on the Lower Reading Room. Students dislike outside reading. They object to finding New Lecture Hall locked too early. They are disturbed at being conspicuous targets for an angry "Sit down!" They prefer cheerful attendants...
With the American system of secondary education floundering about in a flood of adverse criticism and depreciation at the hands of contemporary critics, and, as might be expected, the European system enjoying a corresponding elevation in this country, it is interesting to learn that Great Britain's educators are by no means satisfied with the state of affairs in their secondary schools. It is charged that the cardinal vice there is the consistant cramming of students of 11 and 12 years of age in order that they may make the transition, from primary to secondary institutions, the latter being...
Last month Baltimore sent policemen to every family in the city to learn exactly how many wage earners lacked employment (TIME, Feb. 20). Events justified their preoccupation. Last week the American Federation of Labor published its January table of unemployed union workers in 23 cities. Baltimore held first place with 42.5% unemployed. Of 23 cities Chicago was the only one where unemployment decreased. The table...