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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From London, went Albert Mansbridge, Chairman of the World Association for Adult Education, to Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., to prepare for his organization's part in the Chautauqua jubilee symposium, to be held next week. Said he: "Adult education has become a force in many countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Abroad | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Rutherforton, N. C, now describes a case of a family whose earliest known member from Germany settled in Pennsylvania in 1731. His descendants have remained to a great extent in the same locality and have remarried to a large extent. Every member of the family that lived to adult age married and had many children. There were seven cases of marriages between first cousins. This seemed to have no effect on the number of children or on their health. There appeared to be no record of physical abnormalities anywhere in the family, and there was only one case of slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Inbreeding | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...principal sin of the Premier was his failure "to honor the constantly reiterated pledges of the Labor party in the past 30 years with regard to granting the vote to every adult woman on the same terms as to men. . . . This matter is of primary importance to the women of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

Bureaucratic centralization, standardization and maternalism seemed to be the aims of the 28th annual Congress of Parents and Teachers, meeting at the University of Minnesota, in the City of St. Paul. For the second consecutive year the theme was Adult Home Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In St. Paul | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...third year; again by the end of the tenth year and usually by the age of 16 has doubled for the fourth time. In children the tendency to growth added to natural tendency to recover hastens recovery from conditions that are handled with great difficulty in the adult. Provided proper treatment for these patients can be secured and the nutrition of the child maintained at its best, there seems to be almost no limit to which recovery may take place from even the most severe conditions. "To secure the maximum benefit that is furnished by growth," said Dr. Holt, "proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Outgrowing Disease | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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