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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean Greenough on January 8, this announcement had special significance. On further investigation, however, it was found that the work was being carried on under the supervision of the People's Institute, an endowed educational institution which for the past 26 years has been giving lecture courses to adult audiences at the Cooper Union in New York, and the printed lecture courses were being inaugurated to extend the work of the institution...
...made by Dean Greenough against the vending of printed notes in Cambridge, however, does not apply to this new enterprise. It is being carried on under the supervision of the People's Institute, an endowed educational institution which for the past 25 years has been giving lecture courses to adult audiences at Cooper Union in New York. The printed lecture courses are being inaugurated to extend the work of this institution, and they are designed not so much for students in college as for those men and women who are unable to attend college...
...Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. A female pigeon was transformed into a male as a result of a tubercular condition affecting the spleen, liver and glands. While sex reversal has been frequently caused in the early egg stage, such changes in adult birds are very rare. It indicates that the hereditary basis of no bodily or mental characteristic may be considered as irrevocably fixed, and it is possible that if the study of glandular heredity advances far enough, many characteristics may be brought under control...
...alphabet of life. So potent are these fundamental lessons that this period easily becomes the soil of perversion, inefficiency and distorted or curtailed development. Psychoanalysis reveals significant instances in which the unfortunate experiences in the first years of life were competent to produce developmental disharmonies resulting in abnormal adult behavior...
...University of Michigan recently graduated an Iowa judge at the age of 62. Columbia University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...