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...city. The occurrence of amebic dysentery has fallen to two or three cases a week-a normal condition following an outbreak- and doubtless will be reduced further. Last cases reported were three on April 19. one traceable directly to the Congress Hotel, which is having its entire plumbing system rebuilt. Extra precautions against a recurrence of the disease will be taken this year by the World's Fair Health Commission which includes Dr. Fishbein.-ED. Death Pictures Sirs: When the bloody corpse of Stavisky was among the photographs in TIME Jan. 29] I was surprised, and disgusted, but felt...
...merely a mother but who is familiar with the character and personnel of both public and private schools is intrigued by your statement (March 12), "Professor Norton's commission on the Emergency in Education wanted U. S. school systems rebuilt from the ground up in ten years." I sincerely hope the first step will be to take public education out of politics...
...inaugural address President Eliot stressed the necessity of bettering methods of instruction, and stated that the reforms should not only apply to college, but to all grades of school education. "If the whole structure needs rebuilding, it must be rebuilt from the foundation," said the President. He said that the college needed variety and not uniformity of intellectual product...
Agreed that something must be done, the educators listened to the programs of one committee headed by Columbia's John Kelley Norton and another committee headed by Columbia's Harold R. Rugg. Professor Norton's commission on the Emergency in Education wanted U. S. school systems rebuilt from the ground up in ten years. Observers saw how well the Columbia yeast had worked when Professor Rugg's committee called in President Roosevelt to set up. and educators to support, a national planning council to formulate "a program of relief for and correction of maladjustments...
Against such a background Walter Wellman became the talk of two continents when in 1910 he attempted to fly from Atlantic City to Europe in the rebuilt America, with a crew of five and a mascot kitten. The America had a bag 228 ft. long filled with hydrogen generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water...