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...earned" are at present invalid. Whether or not NRA is of immediate benefit to Education, Dr. Zook predicts it will widen Education's bounds. The child labor ban will put 100,000 new pupils in the high schools. And the increase of leisure will increase the demand for adult education, by which teachers may "interpret social trends and . . . re-emphasize the fundamental significance of education in our social development." Further, NRA should bring an increased interest in, and revaluation of, history, civics, government and economics (at present studied by only 3% of all high-school students). Relief. When...
Gertrude Stein hates to be called an expatriate, in spite of the fact that she has lived most of her adult life in France and seems to be settled there. Born in Allegheny, Pa. (then a suburb of Pittsburgh) "of a very respectable middle class family" of German Jews, she was taken abroad at an early age, spent her youth in California and Baltimore. At Radcliffe she studied under Psychologist William James, was one of his star pupils. At the final examination in his course she turned in a blank paper, with a note explaining that she did not feel...
...school terms have been shortened. The Federal plan, patterned after one which New York State first put in effect, will help particularly rural districts, which must provide their own funds for fuel, textbooks, lighting, etc. etc. City districts will receive aid only if they use it for courses for adult illiterates (in which the U. S. Government thinks it has a proper stake...
...declared: "Millions of teeth were pulled a generation ago. . . . Our objective today is to save these millions of teeth. . . . There has been no spectacular innovation in dentistry in the last few years, but there have been outstanding developments in our understanding of the effects of childhood care on the adult mouth. . . . With proper care starting in early childhood, before the first molars appear, there is no reason why every person should not have most of his teeth at the age of three-score-&-ten." In the past 50 years, said Dr. Black, the U. S. dental profession has spent...
...interest in them to justify the school. For backing he went to Owen D. Young, John W. Davis. Frank O. Lowden. Philip A. Benson. Last week he had enough support to announce that the school would open next October. Dr. Ely plans to limit his enrolment to 300, mostly adult postgraduates. There were 600 applicants last week. The three year course with himself and other land experts in charge will cover land utilization, housing, planning, zoning, real property law, architecture, assessments and taxes, regionalism, public policy and social control. It will have two mottoes: the one Dr. Gilman gave Johns...