Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Mr. Andrew Carnegie proposes to erect and furnish buildings for a polytechnic school at Pittsburg, with an endowment of $1,000,000. The city is to furnish the site.
Furthermore unless the school has the adequate financial support of the community, it can do nothing well; it cannot provide suitable buildings and equipment; it cannot secure and retain teachers who possess scholarship, cultivation, and teaching power commensurate with the work they have to do; it cannot provide the skilled...
Now, the individual home and the community will not give moral or financial aid to the school--will not co-operate with the school unless they believe in it. Hence the necessity for conference between the homes and the school that the school may know and clearly understand the desires...
There are three devices for promoting a good mutual understanding between the home and the school: "Pupil Study," "Parent's Meetings," and "Education Societies." These are as yet more or less imperfect but they are decidedly promising. Through these or similar devices, the individual home and the community will gradually...
Dr. Sargent will give a lecture at the Prospect Union tonight on the "Physical Tests of a Man."