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...possess "individuality," his progress ends. Mass education makes it all the more possible for this precious quality to be lost. Mr. Harkness's gift to Exeter, on the other hand, has put emphasis on treating the students as distinct individuals, or to quote the principal of the Horace Mann School, "as a good physician would treat their physical growth and welfare...
...appointed the National Advisory Committee on Education. Chief question to be mulled over was whether to revive (not, as many people think, create) the Federal Department of Education which existed briefly after Congressman James Abram Garfield (see col. 3) helped establish it in 1867. Under Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council on Education and President Henry Suzzallo of the Carnegie Foundation, 52 savants labored and brought forth last fortnight a bulky report...
...belong (TIME, Sept. 14). At the behest of Senator Simeon Davison Fess, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), he agreed to join in a radio appeal for the group. Last week, along with Speechmaker John Huston Finley of the New York Times, Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council of Education and President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College, Chairman of L. A. C. M., Member Hoover spoke briefly. Said...
...significant of the way justice can be bought and sold that Capone changed his plea from Guilty to Not Guilty when he discovered that he could not bargain with the Federal government. He is being held for evasion of the income tax laws, not for violations of the Mann Act and of the Prohibition Laws of which he is guilty. Evidently the workings of the law have been judged too slippery to hold him on anything but this simple charge. Witnesses may disappear, but bank records remain in vaults...
...detailed, usually comic portraits of minor characters, and in a Dickensian wealth of incident that Author Mann most openly and ably copies the Victorians. Grope's second employer, the bookdealer, gives all his time to painting ridiculous pictures which he considers masterpieces; his garrulous wife infuriates him to such a degree that, on the night he dies, he likens her manner of getting into bed to that of an elephant; Grope's landlady, when he moves to finer lodgings, gives a banquet for him and makes her shy, beer-drinking husband give a speech. The tartness of Author Mann...