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Auto-Education is the name of the method by which the pupil's attention is awakened. The child is given access to a room full of "didactic material''-scores of ingenious, practical devices which he handles and learns to use. There are pieces of cloth on racks for three-year-olds to button and unbutton, bow-knots to be tied and untied, shoe-buttoners to be handled. Infants, when let alone, learn to identify similar buttons and knots on their own clothing, are thus taught to dress themselves...
This camp was admirably located to provide access to the geological features of the easternmost range of the Canadian Rockies. Here also the men could be initiated into the technicalities of mountain climbing, as Roche Miette towered 4000 feet above the camp and gave splendid preparatory training for those who hoped later to scale the glacier-hung and snow-capped mountains a few miles farther west...
...possess over those in the strictly professional school comes from the close contact with the life of a great university, with its tremendous breadth of interest, its opportunities for seeing and hearing the leaders in the world's activities, its museums, the opportunity to hear fine music, and the access to a great library, with its treasures of literature of the ages. For the undergraduate, too, the friendly association with students whose major interest lies in fields other than engineering cannot but be of real benefit
...settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical and dental schools will be employed...
...this country. As a member of the Harvard African Expedition led by Dr. Strong in 1927, he was enabled to study the gorilla at first hand, in the mountains of the Eastern Belgian Congo. Since that time, through study in the museums of several countries, he has had access to the major part of the material available throughout the world upon the subject...