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...inevitably doomed to destruction. What were once considered triumphs of mind over matter have become victories of the machine over man, horribly portrayed in Vanity Fair woodcuts and the magazine supplements of Sunday newspapers. And the ever increasing momentum of scientific progress has startled philosophers out of pleasant and meaningless speculation into the discovery that even the thin air out of which they ordinarily manufacture their syllogisms has more diverse and practical uses...
Holzinger is the authority for the statement that Karel Capek, the Czechoslovakian dramatist, used the word "Viec" in his title which, translated literally, means "thing". Realizing that "The Makropoulos Thing" was a meaningless title, Holzinger translated it "Affair". Theatrical reviews in London and New York papers have called it "Case". The Dramatic Club considered neither title was entirely adequate, and at Holzinger's suggestion "Secret" was substituted...
...periodical examination was moved against as "unsound, unscientific and generally meaningless." The examination mark, said several speakers, has been found by educational psychologists "to have absolutely no fixed relation to mental capacity or intellectual ability." Professor Freeman (University of Chicago) stated that "the retentive capacity of the student never is accurately indicated by the written examination...
...probation is compelled to attend every class,-a doubtful help i raising his grades,-which after all is the requisite thing. he is forced to concentrated on better grades-not better understanding. A fatal emphasis is placed on the additional C which merely exacerbates the already unhealthy system of meaningless marks...
...cast howled lines so meaningless that soon after the curtain rose irreverent beholders were murmuring: "What's the shouting...