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...second course considers the "New Education" in its various aspects, its claim to novelty, and its basic principles. Recent developments in psychology are reviewed. Modern experiments in individual schemes such as the Gary plan, the use of tests and scales, and new modes of discipline are considered in the light of the principles developed in the course...
...basic problem in Mexico is the agrarian problem," stated Mr. Tannenbaum when asked for the chief problems facing Mexico. Next, in order of their importance, are the problems of their relation with the United States, the problem of political democracy, the race problem, education, and the industrial problem. The religious problem is least important...
...picked Fort Wayne, Ind., just over the border. U. S. Steel Corp. last year spent $25,000,000 in Pennsylvania, $20,000,000 in the Indiana-Illinois district; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. built in Michigan; American Rolling Mill Co., in Kentucky. "There has not been a single new basic industry of any size located in Ohio for three years," declaimed Secretary Chandler. Ohio must lower taxes...
...school system mightily in his three years there. Specifically, he had made teachers "punch the time-clock"; had ruled against faculty meetings during classroom hours; held annual public accountings for the efficiency of his subordinates (by assembling representative student groups for quizzing by civic leaders); demanded 100% perfection in basic studies; refused to issue his picture to the press; made annual reports of which the good sense bordered upon the sensational; fought real estate grafts by aldermen; installed junior high schools...
...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...