Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill" chats with a smoothness and correctness of speech seldom found among people of the sporting world. As one hears him discuss the masters of music and their newly acquired ideas of rhythm, which he uses to explain the tennis stroke, one can not help gaining the feeling that Tilden has travelled extensively and possesses wide information...
Yale is at present in a state of such rapid transition that the attempt to discuss its characteristics is, to a certain extent, futile. As the College Plan was inaugurated only this fall, its effects are still clothed in darkness. Whatever may be the outcome of this important social and educational experiment, the Yale of the future will probably by a vastly different place from the Alma Mater the last few classes here have known. Yet for those who must make an immediate decision, a study of the university in a few of its more significant aspects may possibly...
...business meeting will open the session on Friday after which Dr. Carl Brigham and Dr. John A. Lefter will discuss "Recent Progress in School and College Relations." That evening, Professor Coolidge will give a resume of the accomplishments of the House Plan; he will be followed by Dean Hanford, who will talk on "Recent Developments in College Education and Its Effect on the Relation between School and College...
...Saturday morning Dr. H. J. Wieler, Medical Director of Hotchkiss School, and Dr. Jesse S. Williams, professor of Physical Education at Columbia, will discuss the problem "Which Way Physical Education?" That afternoon, Dr. Payson Smith, Commissioner of Education for Massachusetts, will deliver an address on "Present Social Conditions and the Challenge to Secondary Education." President Conant's address will close the meeting. The subject of his speech has not been definitely announced, but it is believed that he will talk along the lines brought out in his first annual report...
...should be very grateful to you if you would allow me a perhaps inordinate amount of space in your columns to discuss what seem to me two great and lamentable fallacies in President Conant's report as you print it this morning. I make no apologies for so sharp a disagreement with Mr. Conant; his views and mine represent two completely hostile theories of the function of a university, and it seems to me that this is a proper moment for a clear definition of these divergent beliefs...