Word: adventism
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...student's own mind. We have discovered that education is not passive but active; that a lesson learned by rote is a lesson forgot. Methods of education of the older generation were undesirable, not only because they were passive, but also because they proved themselves impracticable with the advent of mass education. Lectures grew more formal, great numbers of text books were written from the lectures, and teachers of younger grades were expected to teach by expounding them. The utter futility of this as an educational method has begun to dawn on the whole academic world...
Died. Henry Mouquin, 97, famed Manhattan restaurateur and wine merchant; of old age; at his Williamsburg, Va. estate which he bought in 1871, and to which he retired in disgust at the advent of Prohibition. Born near Lausanne to a family of Swiss hotelkeepers. he used to say that his father fed him a spoonful of wine before he was allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes...
Many amazing and tragic things have taken place in Germany since the advent of the Nazis, but one of the most terrible has been the conflict between the new etatisme and the President Church. The attack upon Protestantism has come from within and without, from Teutonic prelates and Brownshirt authority. Dr. Reinhold Krause in a meeting at the Berlin Sport Palace boomed out his now famous four points: one, that all Jews be excluded from the Church; two, that ghetto parishes be instituted for the ostracized; three, that the Old Testament be thrown out because of its obviously Hebraic origin...
...coming of the House Plan, class spirit inevitably tends to die out and upperclassmen naturally feel that their first allegiance is to their House. So also, the upper classes have no social functions as classes, since the Junior Prom, the last survivor, was dropped some years ago. With the advent of the Houses, a new social life, with dances, dinners, and entertainments, has sprung up within their walls...
...near his home in Hamden, Conn. In April he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, 58, famed x-ray pioneer, professor of roentgenology at Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons had to keep whittling at his ravaged body, performed 73 operations besides innumerable skin grafts...