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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct of schools among workmen who are on strike is a rather interesting idea for adult education. The experiment ... is actually being tried in District No. 2 of the United Mine Workers, where 35,000 workers are on strike. Seven classes have been formed and the attendance is growing rapidly. Obviously this is not an experiment in which any public agency can very well participate. . . . But the establishment of a tradition requiring unions to provide schools and workers to attend them systematically during a layoff could be only beneficial to the men and to the public...
...should divide; and when you realize that all your teaching in the classroom is vain if it is contradicted by the spirit or atmosphere of the student's home, you feel bound to carry the opportunity of education into that home, and your school or college is embarked on adult education. So much the better. Thus will end the rubber stamp the stereotype ideal of training, which now lingers chiefly in certain small places where all the students take the same course and develop the same taste in dress...
...permitted to say this in all kindness-that, after all, there is no virtue in the world more universal, no virtue in the world as common, as common sense; and the reason I say so is that I never yet have met an adult man or woman, and very few of minor age, who did not claim that they possessed it. (Laughter and applause...
...tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious music of the sedate Palestrina, operatic numbers and folk-melodies of Southern Italy which, it is said, have never before been heard...
Details of this scheme have yet to be laid, and there is no possibility of their being hatched before the Autumn, when "the department for the non-vocational education of adult persons beyond the limits of the University" will start to lay its educative plans in real earnest...