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...characteristic of our present-day educational reform that everything is made as easy as possible for the pupil. The effort of attention is reduced to a minimum by the employment of all sorts of devices for making the subject interesting. "Child psychology" with its array of "complexes" has driven from the field the older method of teaching by rote. We are further shifting the emphasis from the dry and musty Classics to the newer and more fascinating Sciences. But though we try to impart a great deal of information, it is against modern principles to demand the expenditure...
...return to "Madam" as may have been surmised for the above, it is a novel which propose to reform neigh the world as a whole nor any particular par of it. The setting of the story is in London, the time the years following immediately after the war. For characters it has many who stand out shapely as individuals, chief among them being Mott Lane, a boy from the English country-side who turns radical and, in theory at least. Revolt against state of society the brought about the war. But the author concerns herself little with his radical tendencies...
...main addresses is "The Failure of Our Prisons", and while both speakers agree on the word "failure", they ascribe it to different causes and will probably suggest different remedies, Mr. Baldwin being in favor of abolishing prisons altogether and Mr. O'Brien advocating nothing more radical than reform...
...this and other reasons," Mr. Babson concluded, "that my outlook on the Russian situation is a hopeful one and that I expect a reform in the methods of the present government, even if it remains in power. Whether it does that or not is in itself a problem...
...final meeting of the Liberal Club before the spring vacation will be held in the Union on Wednesday, April 13, Miss Jane Addams, who is a well-known writer and lecturer on social and political reform, will speak on the subject of "Disarmament...