Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some extent Mr. Abbott is justified in regarding college board examinations as a symbol of all that is arbitrary and antiquated in American education. The necessity for securing certain grades in certain subjects, dealing only with the bare bones of languages and mathematics, forces preparatory schools into cramming and gives an opportunity to the professional tutor who can get anyone into a given college and keep him in after he gets there. The University's one-seventh plan is an attempt at lubricating the present entrance system; the recent action of the college board itself in planning intelligence tests...
That the American university system needs an intellectual forward pass in needs an intellectual forward pass in its educational scrimmages is the mystical pronouncement of L. F. Abbott in the current outlook; he reinforces it with the instance of a Yale man, reared in France, who used French subjunctives as naturally as if he had been their inventor, yet failed in a course because he did not know the rule for their use. Using college board examinations as the prototype of hide-bound education, he seems to be deeply moved by the spectacle of so many young men marching doggedly...
Arthur Henderson, formerly a member of Lloyd George's War Cabinet and Home Secretary in MacDonald's Labor government, expressed complete optimism for England's future in his speech yesterday. Unlike Professor W. C. Abbott, professor of history in the University, who recently expressed to the CRIMSON an opinion that "the power of the communists in England is alarming," Mr. Henderson thinks that "Britain will pull through...
...versatile Mr. Edmonds also publishes a story relating the perils of holding double-pinochle, when the holder is an octogenarian who all his life has drawn mostly nines and jacks. "The Miracle of M. Le Noir" by C. C. Abbott is De Maupassantesque, thoroughly so, and one is tempted to say satisfactorily so. But the best story of this issue, despite the title "Her Daughter's Child," and despite the fact that it illustrates the undesirability of tacking bits of Mr. Arlen's style onto a Mrs. Freeman plot, is Donald Gibbs' story of Jane Fermier's grand-daughter...
Members of the committee under Professor Wilson, governing the administration of the fund, are: Archibald Carey Coolidge '87, Professor of History; Manley Ottmer Hudson G. '07, Bemis Professor of International Law; Allyn Abbott Young, Professor of Economics; Ada Louise Comstock, President of Radcliffe and Dean Bernice Brown of Radcliffe...