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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In many American colleges you will find a majority of the best students working at English literature. You will find a great many more good men working at European history and at the social sciences. This seems to be a logical way of trying to comprehend one's environment. At...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhodes Scholar Contrasts Comparative Maturity of Oxford Freshmen With First-Year Men in Our American Colleges | 12/2/1931 | See Source »

Sabre-toothed tigers, the Piltdown man, the man in the moon, Depression, shooting stars, drugs, Element No. 87, the universe and an abstruse geometrical concept christened Rac-these and other matters were discussed & debated last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tigers, Men, Stars, RAC | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

The Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus), who lived 1,125,000 years ago. and not Pithecanthropus erectus, who was wandering around as late as 500,000 B. C., was apparently the first true man. Darwin and Lamarck to the contrary, evolution is uniform, centrifugal, creational. It has proceeded steadily (Darwin said a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tigers, Men, Stars, RAC | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

"Re-Making the Physical Environment," Professor Carver, Emerson 27.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/25/1931 | See Source »

That children should be sent to school -nursery school or kindergarten-as early as the fourth or fifth year, is a theory held by many U. S. educators. Dissent came last week from Dr. David Snedden, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University. The ninth or tenth year, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smoothie Complex | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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