Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...United States became the creditor of Europe. The critics make few allowances for the youth of the nation. They compare our developing civilization with the crystallized customs of countries which were mellowed when Americans were felling the forests and striving for mastery over nature. American culture is still in process. Meanwhile, the average American, comparing our general well-being with distressed conditions elsewhere, can detect the foundations of a culture which, although it will be different from that of other lands, is not likely to be less admirable. --The Boston Herald...
Premises. The modernizing of higher education in the U. S. has everywhere had the same aims: to free the capable student from the drag of the incapable; to encourage and reward intellectual initiative. And everywhere the liberalizing process has included these steps: removal of compulsion to study; replacement of frequent, specific examinations with in frequent, comprehensive ones. Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth long since took modifications of these steps. In Dr. Alex ander Meiklejohn's experimental college at the University of Wisconsin, the radical plan of studying human eras whole instead of human knowledge piecemeal has been tried with success...
...manner in which Mr. Grover develops book enthusiasts from literary anaemics could be adopted to advantage by other professors throughout the country. It is a painless process to cultural development which overtakes the student unaware...
...presidential aspirants, was interesting, and Mr. Bulkley himself is at this time interesting, only because a dozen or more other gentlemen in both parties are at this time studying the rules with care, and because from now on for two years any vigilant citizen who wishes may observe the process by which people become candidates, serious contenders, nominees and Presidents of the United States of America...
Simple are the merging of educational and missionary equipment. Not so simple is the merging of church organizations. The Pittsburgh conferees urged time and latitude for this process. The Presbyterian subsidiaries of the new Church might retain their "sessions," the Reformed subsidiaries their "consistories." Consistories and sessions differ more in name than in function. Presbyteries or "classes" (larger groupings which include sessions and consistories, respectively) in a particular region need merge organization, equipment and endowment only if they wish...