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...course will cover such present-day problems of education as the curriculum in wartime, new courses in aeronautics, radio and navigation, war problems of guidance, present demands on the personnel of the teaching profession, and the difficulty of maintaining standards during the war and afterwards...
...Among present-day Bates disciples are Mrs. Bates and Optometrist Harold Peppard of Manhattan. Novelist Aldous Huxley was so much helped by the Bates method that he wrote a book about it (The Art of Seeing...
...thin-haired, bespectacled, 31-year-old Reshevsky lived in present-day Russia-where chess is the national pastime and people jam the streets to watch the moves of championship matches on giant dummy boards-he would be a national hero. But in the U.S., where chess has no more spectator appeal than calisthenics, Reshevsky is just another guy named...
...Present-day undergraduates, if they remember him at all, know him as a stooped, gowned figure marching at the head of Commencement processions alongside of President Conant. They think of his name in connection with the House which bears it. But one of their most cherished possessions was protected and strengthened by his courage and wisdom: the untrammeled and uncensored teaching which they enjoy. In the years of the first World War and its immediate aftermath, academic freedom was under bitter and vicious attack from all quarters. But President Lowell was unbending in his declaration that: "We believe that...
...Telegraph: "The consummation of the revolution begun by Mr. Lloyd George in 1911. . . . Perhaps the one really basic innovation ... is the establishment of a national minimum level of subsistence." Manchester Guardian: "A big and fine thing." Daily Worker: "A courageous attempt ... to alleviate some of the worst evils of present-day society. . . . The main principles . . . will be endorsed by all progressive opinion." The man in the street: "A bit of all right." The Plan. The Beveridge plan foresaw joint contributions by employer and employe of a maximum of 75 6d ($1.50) weekly, of which the employer would...