Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Standard examinations will be held for Part One, but in Part Two the candidates will write for three hours on their own subjects. The students will merely be expected to show a thorough knowledge of the books they have read. Basis of marking will be suitability of the topics, soundness of the knowledge, and quality of the writing...
...read what Mr. Conant has written, not only in this Report but in other publications, he has been a consistent advocate o democratic procedures in education. He does not seem to me to favor curtailment of educational opportunity as a means toward more satisfactory personal living or more effective citizenship; but he does favor the full and impartial use of the schools as an agency of vocational selection. He seems to me to have indicated in his statements that he favors more education in general and more varied education at all levels for the better meeting of more varied human...
Died, Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, widest-read U. S. columnist (New York Day by Day, in 508 papers); four days before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material...
...been discovered that Dr. Rhine's patented ESP cards can be read from the back when light is reflected from the back of the card at a certain angle. This, of course, is not true if a shield is interposed between the cards and the clairvoyant...
...Counselor. He will have to use a maximum of care not to frighten sensitive Yardlings by appearing to be another banana skin on the royal road to history. He must be a father-confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush of their own choosing, who will resent this invasion...