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Quiet as significant of the educational trend as the immense growth in high school provision and in college and university attendance during the last twenty years has been the movement for adult education. What gives it life and aim is the conception that education is a continuing process through life--an active, purposeful effort and not a mere nassive receptivity. The Association for Adult Education, now holding its annual session in New York, has no program of instruction and itself employs no teachers, but cooperates with five hundred organizations which have to do with various forms of adult education both...
...increased leisure for all. Maeterlinek is quoted as saying that on the way in which these increased hours of freedom are spent may depend the whole destiny of man. And one may not, in the face of the results of Dr. Thorndike's researches into the adult's ability to go on learning, have an excuse for not continuing to learn, even into...
...sufficiently adult to study a book on connubial hygiene, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love- the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then...
...Lake Forest, 111. Rose Wiggin, 4, and Sally Wiggin, 6, after reading a great number of fairy stories, stripped, coated themselves with their mother's vanishing cream, ran downstairs into a formal, adult dinner-party under the impression that they were invisible...
...world." And there are birds & beasts without end -sprightly little dogs; pigeons colored like caster eggs; zebras that never quite learn their tricks; a sea lion that balances itself on one flipper; another that plays the "Star Spangled Banner"; the sea elephant Goliath who snorts like thunder and gulps adult fish on his motor truck; horses that wheel through handsome convolutions. As always, the Circus has something to please everybody. Boys who have grown too old to want to run away from home and carry water for the elephants may be inclined to do the same sort of thing...