Word: moulding
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Briggs has an article in the October number of the "Atlantic Monthly" on "Some Old-Fashioned Doubts about New-Fashioned Education." In this article Dean Briggs expresses some doubts as to whether the best results are to be obtained by the "new-fashioned" education in its increasing tendency to mould itself with too great pliability, to individual traits and tendencies. "With the kindergarten at one end of our education and with the elective system at the other we see, or seem to see a falling off in the vigor with which men attack distasteful but useful things,--a shrinking from...