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...family in a brownstone house on East 18th Street. His wife runs a tearoom on Irving Place, raises cocker spaniels profitably at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. Of their five children, William, 19, works for a power transmission company; Polly, 18, is at Vassar; Frances, 17, goes to Barnard this autumn; Becky, 14, is in high school; Evan, 9. attends a private school in Connecticut. For fun Mr. Thomas plays a little tennis, sails a small boat on Shinnecock Bay. He drinks buttermilk, seldom smokes...
George Grey Barnard, sculptor...
...would be manifestly impertinent to sympathize with your editorial-writer and with the Dean of Barnard College, now that their recent remarks on education have been characterized as "ignorant" and "erroneous." The Dean of the Graduate School of Education, writing ex cathedra, gives us to understand that laymen are hardly qualified to deal with those technical matters. In fact, ever since education became a branch of technology, we have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School...
...that your editorial reveals a marked ignorance of the actual work of normal schools, teachers' colleges, and university departments of education in this country? It is quite apparent that you are unfamiliar with the organization, aims, and achievements of such institutions. I can not believe that the Dean of Barnard College, whose editorial in the New York Herald-Tribune, you quoted, is also uninformed on these matters. Would it not be well before you take up a subject of this kind to make sure that you know something about the real situation on which your editorial bears...
There is, in truth, some danger in state requirements in Education. Such requirements can not be said surely to make for improvement in teaching. They probably do less harm than you or the Dean of Barnard College may suppose; but argument on that point would have to be extensive, leading to rather nice distinctions. It is clear enough that every teacher who is to do anything like a good job should have all the scholarship implied by a good A.B. degree and more besides. In addition, he should have a thorough and well-ordered knowledge of educational conditions, problems...