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...Monday, October 10, at 8 P. M., in Lawrence 3, Dr. Sven Knudsen, Head Master of the Hellerup Gymnasium, Copenhagen, Denmark, will give an illustrated lecture on "Denmark, the Country and Its Schoolss." Dr. Knudsen is on a government mission in this country studying American education and has brought with him a number of lantern slides illustrating Denmark, and especially its system of education...
...Scout masters, who have charge of a troop of from 18 to 32 boys, should be American citizens at least twenty-one years of age. Assistant scout masters must be at least eighteen years of age. The latter will be expected to meet with the troop once a week and assist the scout master as he may direct...
...college man agement. Heretofore, the financial and educational departments of a university have always been more or less closely affiliated under the responsibility of one man-in most cases, the President. But with the growth of universities and the expansion of their financial interests, his combined position of head master and business manager has become too exacting. The University of Pennsylvania feeling that the task was too great to be administered with thorough efficiency by a single person, no matter how great his capabilities, decided to separate entirely the financial and educational branches...
...that either the authority for running the college should be returned to the trustees and the president, or else the trusteeship and the presidency should be abolished. The president is practically helpless under the present system of administration, his situation being in some degree analogous to that of the master of a public high school whose functions are entirely usurped by a city government or board of selectmen. A school cannot be taught by a town meeting nor an agricultural college effectively run by a State government. --Boston Evening Transcript...
Employee representation is the natural and normal development of large scale industry. When industrial units were of relatively much smaller size, contact between man and master was direct, friendly and close. The employer-employee relationship was simple. As industry expanded with thousands of factories employing from half a thousand to ten or twenty thousand men and women, this contact was destroyed. The distance between employer and manager increased. Employer and manager became separated. They could not do business together efficiently because they had no adequate machinery to express the real relationship which necessarily underlies industrial work...