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Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls). "You needn't congratulate yourselves on your talent," Dr. Fritz tells his protégés. "It isn't any fault of yours." Ronald Joseph has stayed with the Fritz class for six years. He was the first to be given a special section in the Metropolitan. So far his success has not spoiled him. He says: "I have a fifty-fifty chance of doing something good...
...been said, and justly, that the pursuit of science at Harvard is "orientation in a field of force." The writer has had ample opportunity in four years to become convinced that this comparison to the magnetic compass is not only true but that it constitutes a real fault in the scheme of things...
...concentrating in Biology, for example, is dragged down on one side by a staggering amount of laboratory work, on the other side by a reading period in which no respite from laboratory is allowed, and further by tutorial work and divisionals. With the latter two little fault can be found, for the divisional examinations in Biology are being given for the first time this year, and the tutorial system is as effective as it can ever be until a replacement of "doctor's office" conferences by direct individual laboratory contact can be effected...
...last the law prevailed. Superintendent of Police William O'Neil called it "the worst riot in my 40 years' experience. . . . Not the students' fault . . . the rabble around them...