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...eight consultants with their time at the disposal of the student will allow the workers for a Ph.D. degree to consider the past in the light of present-day experience. The idea of Washington as a place of higher reference scholastically as well as politically, as a new educational focus point, suggests that education may join the ranks of other interests becoming centralized in the national capitol...
...collegian attitude by a half hundred delegates from all types of universities and schools must, to a large degree, be representative of the student attitude. Any discussion of Prohibition, and such a subject must necessarily be included in an analysis of modern American government and economics, will naturally focus attention on a large class of citizens, who have heretofore been quite reticent on the theory and practice of the Eighteenth Amendment. Although, in the eyes of some persons, students may be better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry...
...kneel down in front of me," commanded Statesman Stimson, at the same time bringing a camera into focus. "Kneel down, and while you take a picture of me I shall take a picture of you in that position...
During the past generation many a "progressive" secondary school has mushroomed forth in the U. S. educational field. Dedicated to the proposition that the school child should be made happy and useful, progressive institutions focus pedagogical attention on the student's individual "direct experience," attempt to give "meaning and interest to the learning process." Grades do not count for much...
Consequent to the first report of the National Commission on Law Enforcement. Prohibition last week came into sharper focus in Congress than at any time since its inauguration, ten years ago last week. The Commission's report had furnished substantial grist for the legislative mill. Of its recommendations the most important (the Commission gave it No. 1 place), the most likely to become law at this session of Congress, was that for the transfer of the Government's dry enforcement arm from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. Such a transfer, as all the world knew...