Word: centers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's few successful adult education centers, the Cambridge center owes much of its success to the assistance given it by Professor Kirtley Mather and other Harvard officers. When originally conceived in 1938 as an activity of the Cambridge Social Union, the Center applied to its Boston counterpart for guidance. At that time, Mather was president of the Boston organization, and he went out of his way to aid Cambridge in setting up its branch. The enrollment that first year topped 300, and the organizers were encouraged into expanding the following year. More rooms were turned over to classes...
...addition to providing a casual atmosphere conducive to voluntary study, the Center is well stocked with top-quality instructors. The investment course, for instance, is conducted by Ralph B. Dibble, account executive for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Beane and an instructor at Boston University. A course in contract bridge is given by Forrest N. Maddix, an authorized teacher of the Culbertson System, while William Drake, staff artist on the Christian Science Monitor, offers instruction in cartooning and newspaper drawing...
...Center, however, doesn't draw the line on its activities at the classroom. A series of monthly programs is always on tap for the general public and members, including concerts by its music staff and contract bridge sessions...
...classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable and profitable...
...Hornbake of Coal Center, Pa., graduated from Pennsylvania State Teachers College and received his MA and Ph.D. from Ohio State...