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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawrenceville School, whose statements appear in another page of the CRIMSON. Dr. Abbott believes the two greatest difficulties are the "bugbear of college entrance requirements," and the failure of modern schools to realize that the "schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of fifty years ago." He recommends the example of England in separating the intellectual sheep from the goats and paying especial attention to the scholars of promise...
...chief difficulty in discussing education lies in the fact that we are hidebound by tradition. The school world has not realized that the schoolboy of today is entirely a different being than the schoolboy of even fifteen years ago, and still we are trying to develop scholars by the method which our forefathers decided was best to produce the student...
...Some people think that a commercial crisis is due this yea on the grounds of the periodic theory, as we have not had a crisis for ten to twenty years. There is little reason for seriously considering this theory. For according to it a crisis was due several years ago. Conditions are constantly changing especially during the last few years and it is absurd to believe in a theory as old and as much ridiculed as the periodic theory...
...fascinated by this wonderful new America that has sprung up across the seas," said Maurice Maeterlinck, world famed Belgian poet, naturalist, and mystic, when interviewed by a CIRMSON reporter. M. Maeterlinck arrived in this country a fortnight ago for the first time to deliver a series of lectures on his views of the world beyond and of immortality. At present in New York, Maeterlinck will deliver an address in Boston at Symphony Hall on January...
...Tyler. In addition L. P. Thurston and J. H. McHenry have returned to college. Thurston is an Hawaiian who was interscholastic champion while he was at Lawrenceville Academy. He was captain of the 1921 team but since then has been in war service. McHenry swam at yale two years ago, starring in the middle distance events...