Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This vast territory is as complex racially as is Europe. Made up as it is of such a heterogeneous collection of races, it is not difficult to see why there has never been any permanent calm in the country. In regard to religion, the process of change is not new. Budhism swept over India centuries ago, and then receded. It is now slowly regaining its place among the people...
...this same process of reasoning, all countries save England and the United States have adopted "that at absurd system of grams and meters". Even in our own territory of the Philippines the metric system has been prescribed by law and is used in all commerce and business. From the point of view of the outsider, only the two most conservative nations of the world still measure distances in terms of miles and feet and inches, and liquids in terms of pints and quarts and gallons--no one of which measurements bear any decimal relation to another. Even between these...
...older and newer universities alike are victims of the lecturing habit. Education is conceived mainly as a process of sending students to attend as many lectures as possible, and, while some attempt is made to supply by individual and group tuition the deficiencies of the lecture method, there can be no doubt that the student is expected to acquire his education mainly by the assimilation of lectures. He does not, and cannot in fact, do this, for, although the lecture has its proper place in the scheme of education, it is wholly unsuited to serve as the main instrument...
...This is true," said President Little is conclusion, "not only on the athletic field but in every branch of activity that demands earnest effort, such as college publication, dramatic activities and debating. This last I think to be an especially good intellectual developer. The process of getting to the bottom of a subject--and you can't do that without a good deal of hard work--is a good steadying influence on the mind and reasoning powers. So long as a student can keep above board in his work I think his other activities should not only be permitted...
...There is little about these grim miners that can be called ethical, but they are full of a practical reality. Some solution to this problem must be found--a problem now pressing in every corner of the nation, and seen in its most violent form in West Virginia. Some process of law must be devised whereby there may be an amicable settlement between capital and labor. There must be more of a spirit of tolerance to guide us through the period of transition that we are now facing, with its inevitable industrial upheaval. The old order is being questioned...