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Many a citizen of Lansing. Mich. (pop. 80,000) despaired of adult education in his city last May when lack of funds shut down the municipally-financed evening school. But such defeatists reckoned without Try. (for Trygve) Narvesen, Norwegian-born secretary of the local...
...worker of the Wayne County School, was Dr. Robert Henry Haskell, school superintendent. Last week Dr. Haskell and Mrs. Ainsworth vigorously denied that they ever used trickery, insisted that they got the consent of the parents in every instance, and "not only that but the consent of every other adult member of the family, which is more than the statute requires." Legally Dr. Haskell seemed to be secure last week.† But not communally. Excited Auditor Williams called for a public hearing. Papal sentiment urges Roman Catholics to oppose sterilization. Jews, because of Old Testament injunctions, presume an interest...
...highs for Chautauqua prosperity. Receipts never fell below $100,000, attendance averaged 50.000. By 1932 receipts and attendance had fallen off 40%. Brisk, earnest Dr. Bestor, who has been with Chautauqua since 1905, calls receivership a "breathing spell," has lost none of his faith in the gospel of adult education. Last week he was going ahead with plans for Chautauqua's 1934 season, hoping to finance it with contributions and the sale of $100,000 worth of receivership bonds...
...adult education went 227,500 Carnegie dollars, of which it spent $750 on Southern Mountain whites and $5,000 on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...
...obvious reasons, the university administration has said little on the question of beer in the Houses. But if student opinion were united, and pressure put on University Hall through the housemasters, it might be driven to admit that 3.2 beer with meals was a privilege which Harvard is certainly adult enough to claim, and to suggest this to the Massachusetts legislature. A simple amendment of the beer age limit from twenty-one to eighteen would be nothing but a legal acknowledgment of a plain fact. Even the Massachusetts legislature cannot remain forever so far from the walks...