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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scholarship students at Harvard University have established and are carrying on one of the most beneficial and unusual teaching schemes yet noted in the field of modern education. Through an "undergraduate faculty," the Cambridge plan offers an educational opportunity to worthy high school graduates unable for various reasons to attend college . . . Such a tremendously important and progressive plan elicits our strongest praise and approval. For the advantages of the "pickaback scholar" system are numerous and far-reaching. It provides for further education, not only through classes, but also through the use of the library and the general introduction of eager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

...will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree . . . to the spare, skeletal style of such late poems as Death: Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again, A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone - Man has created death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Though Sears will be without a Rosenwald at its head for the first time in 39 years, it will have one on its board. Julius Rosenwald 2nd will be one of three new directors to attend the General's first meeting, which he may begin (as he does his meals and conferences) by barking out: "Let's charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mail Order Men | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...must also be recognized by the general public. For, until it is, teaching standards will remain low, and teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHING TEACHERS | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week the young King, attended 500 of his army officers, not only attend the service in Cairo's Quoson Mosque but donned the robes of an imam, the prayer leader, and read the prayers to the congregation. When he finished, the congregation and his officers broke into a thunderous cheer: "The Caliph of all Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Caliph Candidate | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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