...since reading them because they tend to reflect my own political philosophy. Those lines were : "Be not the first by whom the new is tried/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Well, it is being tried already in different places. It is now time for the Federal Government...

...The idea of science as a cumulative enterprise led to the policy neatly put in Pope's advice to be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to cast the old aside. Sometimes the demands of the system for general courses covering a wide range of...

...experiences to this Congress to improve and upgrade and to sit in judgment somewhat on the old theory of, be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside, and I think that's kind of what you're saying. Mr. White, we'd recognize you for 2 minutes, and one minute's...

...that is unfair and morally unsettling. It is true by definition that the vast majority of people are "not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to cast the old aside." The vast majority, then, have little to fear from laws derived from the restricted...

...unilaterally, not for those who "follow the crowd." (What better counterargument to the old saw: Be not the first by whom the new is tried nor yet the last to cast the old aside?) The resulting quandary about whether to invest in the laborsaving device has been...

...Alexander Pope's advice on publishing a successful text (cited in Schramm 1955, 129) is still apt: Be not the first by whom the new is tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 1ssues in materials development 1n this section, 1 examine at some length what 1 take to...

...conservatism. In the words of local administrator and curriculum specialist Lillian Faulkner, "Milwaukee is not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to set the old aside". 10 Although Milwaukee's schools often reflected progressive pedogogical practices,...

...like them are no less common today than they were in Hesiod's time. To quote two of my favorites: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried,/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside" and (a very Hesiodic one, if Hesiod had been a Christian) "Live as if to die tomorrow; farm as if to live...

...19621: 34-36, 57. 28. One DGWS article summarized the moderating attitude with a quotation: "Need not be the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last the old to lay aside" 1quoted in "Extramural Sports for Women," JOHPER [December I960]: 631. 29. National...

...understanding how to use it effectively. An old maxim seems to be worth remembering in this regard: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." IN CONCLUSION Educational media can enrich and enhance almost any educational encounter....