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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question, "Is the Experimental College a success?" Dr. Meiklejohn attempts no flat answer. In general, parents said yes. But Experimenter Meiklejohn and his Advisers, viewing it as an educational method, find the problem more difficult, content themselves with making observations, presenting recommendations to the University whose President Glenn Frank helped plan the College. Some observations...
...assured that the eggs of these particular birds, because of scientific diet, have special merit in flavor, vitamin content and rejuvenating qualities. With the Democratic Convention only a week off you can see that a general hardship would result if we are prevented from offering these delicious morsels on our menus...
...that much went on, but few have a complete mental picture such as this book gives. Racing madly from topic to topic through 350 highly compressed pages, Mr. Allen still can only touch on the high spots. But the quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy (or better tragedy) of errors as this animated tableau is unwound before the reader's eyes...
...erroneous." The Dean of the Graduate School of Education, writing ex cathedra, gives us to understand that laymen are hardly qualified to deal with those technical matters. In fact, ever since education became a branch of technology, we have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School--to quote its catalogue--endeavors to place "the technical training of teachers and school officers under a distinct professional organization parallel to the schools of Law, Medicine, Divinity...
...Yale eight and its Jayvee escort was also bothered by the wind at the Eli's headquarters at Gales Ferry. The combination crew managed to do two and one-half miles, while the first-year Elis were content with a short paddle...