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...November, the potent National Education Association appointed a nationally representative committee of ten (teachers, headmasters, deans) to investigate public utility propaganda in schools. Dr. Edwin Cornelius Broome, superintendent of Philadelphia public schools, was made chairman. Last fortnight, Dr. Broome spoke. Oracular, he seemed to mean more than he said when he said: "It is the unanimous conviction of the committee that the function of the school is to teach children how to think, not what to think. It is not right to indoctrinate the minds of young people with either one side or the other of controversial questions...
Married. The Countess of Northesk, onetime Jessica Brown of the Ziegfeld Follies, who recently divorced David, 11th Earl of Northesk; and Vivian Cornelius of the British diplomatic corps, of Windlesham, Surrey; in London. Said the clergyman: "Vivian . . . you're marrying an exquisite woman. . . . I love you both. . . . Jessica . . . you've married Vivian, a great man, a true Sahib...
...Manhattan, rich Brigadier General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt entertained last week His Royal Highness Prince George, youngest son of George V, prior to his sailing on the Cunarder Berengaria for Southampton, home...
...Eugene Cornelius Sullivan, 56, invented Pyrex glassware for the Corning Glass Works. His aids were Dr. J. T. Littleton, his chief physicist and W. C. Taylor, his chief chemist...
Died. Noel Morris, 24, direct descendant of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of Dave Hennen Morris, Manhattan barrister & corporation official; by suicide; in Manhattan. Earlier in the same evening Son Morris had heard Tannhaüser at the Metropolitan, had written in his diary: "Tannhaüser wasn't brave enough to stick it out, but I have the courage to do it." It was recalled that 48 years ago, in Hanover, Germany, 16-year-old Francis Morris, uncle of Noel Morris, shot himself after hearing the opera Traviata...