Word: technician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercise, the technique of rest; home-furnishing and color-values; art appreciation and a discriminating taste in literature; the history of music and musicians; psychology in graded lessons; poetry-the very best, but what people really do like, not what they should like from the standpoint of a technician or a modernist ... a university course in training for parenthood, which shall include the mental, moral and physical education of children from earliest infancy through the high school age, to be supplemented by graded reading courses and required theses...
...Poet Laureate of England recently arrived in Manhattan, refused to be interviewed, refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure...
...narrative poem based on Celtic legends), Yeats has been recognized as among the most distinguished of living poets. His life has been devoted to the Irish renaissance. In large measure he was the Irish renaissance. George Moore admits it. Synge, a finer dramatist, and Lady Gregory, a better technician, were directed by him. To him the Abbey Theatre (Dublin) owes its great days and its survival. His best drama is the Land of Heart's Desire, but his fame rests upon his lyrics. In the U. S., Yeats' complete works have been published by Macmillan...
...Significance. Frank Swinnerton is chiefly known as a technician. The story of Felix's childhood and youth is told with an adroit simplicity that gives a minute picture without the semblance of effort. Every episode comes with the force and inevitability of life itself. He is never melodramatic, never sordid. He is consistently interesting. He has the invaluable faculty of exploiting the significance of the casual. He does not feel it necessary to take his characters apart in order to show how they work. Unquestionably they all have complexes and repressions and psychological eccentricities. But Mr. Swinnerton...
Nevertheless, investment is undoubtedly far more risky in a liberal than in a technical education. As long as this is so, the liberal schooling must ever remain a luxury for the privileged few, while the majority of men must be content with the knowledge of the technician. The very fact that a liberal education is possible to only a few should make those few all the more desirous of taking advantage of their unusual opportunities. For, where pearls are scarce, it is unthinkable that they should be cast before swine. It is the duty of the liberal college...