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...fund so that at the end of next season the Slenczynskis will be free to retire their prodigy daughter. Impressible Ruth favors concerts for three months a year at least. Next year's performances will earn her $2,500 apiece, a fatter fee than is asked by such adult artists as José Iturbi, Myra Hess, Vladimir Horowitz, Josef Hofmann...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, was appointed chairman of the Adult Education Council of Greater Boston, it was learned yesterday. The Council was formed on February 7 to coordinate the activities of the various institutions which are serving in the field of adult education...
...Council will organize the courses in the Twentieth Century Adult Education Center of which Professor Mather is the president and which is supported by many professors at Harvard. Among those lecturing at the Center are Professor Mather; Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music; Loring B. Andrews, instructor of Astronomy; Albert H. Cantril, instructor of Psychology; Robert K. Lamb '28, instructor in Economics; and David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy...
Concluded the researchers: "If correspondence schools would set up personnel bureaus and avail themselves of measuring instruments whereby adult students could be guided to suitable courses, their courses of training would meet a sorely felt need in the field of adult education. Until they undertake this service, efforts of the hit-or-miss variety coupled with intensive advertising and sales campaigns must continue to brand most of these schools as merely profit-making institutions. And of more serious import, they are contributing to the formation of an unhappy and maladjusted citizenry...
...book." Judge Woolsey decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women." But even granting Ulysses a bill of moral health an intelligent adult may well smite his brow...