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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, England, Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Ver mont, a schoolmate of Calvin Coolidge at Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vt., told the following story last week: "A jackass found its way one night into a classroom on an upper floor of the academy. The long-eared animal didn't like the classical surroundings and played havoc with the desks, tables and books, and roughed the place up generally, to the great displeasure of the Faculty...
...yearly National Education Association convention?public school superintendents, classroom teachers?occurred last week in Seattle. Many speeches were along traditional lines?for high professional ideals, for helpful supervision, for vocational education, better teachers' colleges, better salaries, frank conferences with girl pupils, geography as a basis of international peace; for?as always?dignifying public education by putting a U. S. Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet as head of a Federal Education Department (instead of the present "Bureau" under the Department of the Interior with advisory powers only...
Elections. Delaware dramatically surrendered her early place in the roll call to Virginia; and Miss Cornelia S. Adair, junior-high-school teacher of Richmond, Va., who was already president of the National League of Classroom Teachers and a vice president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women,* was put in nomination for the N. E. A. presidency. None was named to oppose her. After the unanimous vote was cast, Miss Adair said: "It surely is mighty nice of you all." All other N. E. A. officers were reelected, Retiring-President Blair becoming a vice president...
...artistic sensibilities of Joseph Esposito, 14-year-old Italian of the Dore Elementary School in Chicago, were upset in his classroom by a chromo of George Washington. So he saved $85 by selling ice cream, privately commissioned an artist to copy the Stuart portrait of Washington which he had seen in the Chicago Art Institute. Last week he presented the oil painting to his school. He is behind in his studies, but he has given boards of education, throughout the land, something on which to ponder...
...actual, plans for the new Fogg Museum matured over a period of ten years. It is primarily a combination of a teaching museum with an actual museum. It is designed to meet the varying and exacting requirements of classroom, gallery, library, laboratory, studio, print room, and museum. Important as the exterior of the new Fogg is, it is the interior which makes it one of the most remarkable and exemplary places of museum architecture in America. The pivot and center of the building is a great court bordered on three sides by arcades and on the fourth by a grill...