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...Lecture Hall, will begin at 2.30 o'clock. The subject of "Educational Finances and Economies" will be the topic discussed. Included among those who are to address the meeting are Mr. Frank V. Thompson '07, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Boston; Dr. Frank W. Ballou '14, Director of Educational Research, Boston; Mr. Myron W. Richardson '86, Headmaster of the Girls' High School, Boston; and Mr. Henry Turner Bailey. This meeting will be open to the public...
Another educator applies a similar criticism to the research and graduate work done in American colleges. He finds that students doing more advanced work do not show the initiative and originality they should, and consequently are passive and docile in their thoughts. The reason given by this writer for such submissiveness of mind is to be found in the present system of wholesale memory work. Lecture notes and contents of books are learned for the occasion only and do not become a permanent mental possession to serve as a background for the more advanced work...
...library of the Graduate School of Business Administration has opened a new department, intended to provide students in the School with a knowledge of the tools and technique of business research. This consists of a laboratory in which students may examine and test all the labor-saving devices in use in modern business work. The Faculty had already obtained permission from over 150 business concerns in Boston, Cambridge and neighboring cities for students to examine their plants and business methods. The manufacturers of labor-saving devices for business purposes were then asked, on a basis of mutual advantage, to place...
...President's address, by Mr. Frank V. Thompson '01, assistant superintendent of schools, Boston; "Making a School Budget," by Dr. Frank W. Ballon '14, director of educational research, Boston; "Economics in High School Organization," by Mr. Myron W. Richardson, headmaster, Girls' High School, Boston; "The Teacher's Threefold Purpose," by Mr. Henry Turner Bailey...
...investigations are organized under the general supervision of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, of whose advisory committee Professor Reid Hunt of the University is a member...