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Slim, grey-mustached Ellwood Patterson ("Dad") Cubberley, dean emeritus of Stanford University's School of Education, is dean of historians of U. S. education. He wrote or edited the famed 100 Riverside Textbooks in Education and besides wrote 18 others. His best seller, Public School Administration, sold some 100,000 copies. Professors who write widely-used texts make a lucrative business of writing textbooks, but last year 70-year-old Ellwood Cubberley did an unprecedented thing with his textbook profits. He gave Stanford's School of Education a new $535,000 building...
...morning session the topic of discussion was: "Does the Present Trend toward Vocational Education Threaten Liberal Culture?" E. P. Cubberley, professor of Education, Leland Stanford, Jr., University, and Mr. R. A. Woods, A.M. '10, head of the South End House, Boston, read papers on the subject. Professor Cubberley showed that the growth of high schools and state universities in the past decade was due to the fact that the common man wished a broader education for his children than the classical curriculum formerly provided; therefore, agricultural and commercial schools are demanded by popular sentiment. Mr. Woods said the new ideals...
Education 1a.--The History of Education in Europe since the Reformation. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, at 9. Professor Cubberley, Leland Stanford Jr. University...
Education 3d.--The Theory of Statisti- cal Work and the Application of Statistical Method, to the Study of Educational Problems. Wednesday, Friday, at 10. Professor Cubberley, Leland Stanford Jr. University...
Education 20c. -- Seminary. Subject: The Evolution and Present Status of Education in Certain Selected States. Wednesday, 3.30-5.30. Professor Cubberley, Leland Stanford Jr. University...