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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this vigorous, various study is neglected, undirected, by the leaders of formal higher education. Founded in 1900, conferring annually since, the Association of American Colleges has touched but once upon adult education; in 1910 a paper was read on university extension courses-but the discussion drifted into academic bookkeeping (credits for study) and away from community service...
...academic year, each institution determining the content and method of its own examination, should be at great significance and indicate in what ways the newspaper may be a more general and effective means of education in America. They should also be helpful to the whole movement in adult education. The incidental inter-university contest will open a new field for friendly intellectual competition in subjects of universal human interest and, if successful, should give a permanent place to current events as an extra curricula interest if not as a curriculum course in all higher institutions of learning...
Mortality. Few grownups die from erysipelas alone. But the mortality of children is very great. Among infants under one year of age 75% to 90% attacked die. Among children under five years 15% to 20% die. Adult mortality...
...Jersey law allows employment of children at 14 years of age provide that they attend "continuation school" two half days a week for two years. This rule is invariably followed. Boys and girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except drudgery and hardship. They are undernourished and underschooled, and must contribute to the family income as soon as they attain working...
...parasite makes it necessary to bear in mind the three stages through which the worm passes. The encysted [cased] larva is the infecting stage, found in the uncooked or poorly cooked pork. When eaten, the cysts are destroyed by the digestive juices, and in two or three days the adult worm develops; the male impregnates the female and then dies. In from six to ten days, the embryos are discharged from the uterus of the female worm into the lumen [passageway] of the intestine or into the lymphatics of the intestinal wall. These embryos wander with lymph or blood...