Word: patterning
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...disclosure of this difficulty will, of course, play havoc with the popular idea that the holes depend upon gangs of Swiss maidens who construct them with their teeth as well as the rival theory that the marksman ship of the Swiss fleet is responsible for the regularity of the pattern...
...have recently come to the conclusion that the essence of Harvard pedagogy is to treat all students as a kind of clay to be shaped into some preconceived pattern, which according to the notion of the polite society is the most desirable and represents the best of manhood. It is difficult to define what is "the best"; but it is easy to see that this is the reason why there are so many lectures, prescribed readings, examinations, etc. The students on the whole are expected to be able to repeat what the professors have told them in the class...
...Graduate School is concerned, I suggest these remedies: (1) treat them as human beings having each some idiosyncrasy rather than as just raw material to be reduced to a standard pattern; (2) less lectures, more independent research work so that they may have a sense of freedom: (3) less prescribed reading, more seminaries and free discussion...
...most distinguished actor", though he does his best to earn the title, and his charming curtain-speech won him many Boston hearts. Two or three of the many semi-minor parts, newly filled since the company left New York, are distressing; the rest fit cleanly into the well-planned pattern of the production...
...these facts assembled from a complicated pattern in which the motif to stand out most obviously is a warning for the future. The strikes of last summer were tolerated only because people were short-sighted enough not to foresee the consequences. The same overnight is not likely to happen again...