Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Teachers' College at Columbia University is the largest training station for schoolteachers in the land (2,799 degrees and diplomas awarded in 1927-28). Last week the Mother Goose dispute cropped up there. Miss Marie Duggan of the Bureau of Educational Service announced...
...Moore who teaches a course in child literature at Teachers' College. Said she: "If there's anything I abhor, it's stories about children who accomplish wonders by eating cereal and spinach. . . . Until this story came out, I never knew she [Miss Duggan] and the Bureau of Educational Service existed in the college...
...Tutoring Bureau is one of the few activities at present conducted by Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and it is potentially one of the most valuable ways in which the Society can be of service. It is unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before...
Last year the Bureau was maintained throughout most of the second half-year, without being much employed, Such an experiment could well be repeated, but its value depends entirely on the consent of the tutees. In teaching while there is still time to learn, the organization should be useful and stimulating; but the accurate compilation of spot passages is, properly, outside its sphere, and the man who aims merely at passing examinations will find it of little...
...students in numerous helds, the Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau has again been organized. About 30 members of this society are now available for work and are offering tutoring services free of charge to any men who wish assistance...