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...that President Scott's results justify his innovation is not clear. In the first place, the prodigy for whom educators solemnly draw up plans and curricula is little more than an hypothesis. It is true that there are precocious children, in fairly large quantities, and mentally receptive children, and even creative children. But when these intangible superiorities, known only in their effects, are gauged by the Binet tests, the implications cannot be uniform in each case. Superintelligent children with normal balance are, according to Mr. M. V. O'Shea, natural leaders of their contemporaries and should be permitted to retain...
...term Latin School was once applied to schools in which Latin was the principal subject and all else was taught as growing out of it. Today the curricula in Latin Schools are little different from those in other schools. Chicago's Latin School, founded in 1888, was probably so named because it sounded old and solid. Baltimore has a Boys' Latin School, established in 1844. But the most famed Latin Schools, oldest free schools in the U. S., are those in Boston and nearby Roxbury, founded...
There may be a great need for trained intellects through well organized curricula and efficient and far sighted administrations, but without healthy bodies as complements to the human picture--then, all education is futile. These United States succeeded only too well during the rouge era to spread the gospel of profit for the institution at the expense and neglect of 90 per cent of the individuals who make up the institution...
...years ago Walter Rautenstrauch, professor of industrial engineering at Columbia University and extra curricula a commercial industrialist, gave Howard Scott a room at Columbia, told him to put the Technosocial ideas on record...
...years ago a committee of the Student Council presented a report on inter-House athletics. In general the conduct of inter-House athletics during the past year has followed the procedure recommended in that report. Even as the Houses were to be permitted to develop other extra-curricula activities in their own way, we in the Athletic Department were anxious to see as much autonomy as possible in the evolution of an inter-House athletic program. The changes in and the additions to the program, made necessary by experience, were affected not by the Harvard Athletic Association...