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School Economy. Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, a onetime school superintendent in Pennsylvania, reported on the work of a commission to which he had been appointed by the N. E. A. in co-operation with Secretary of Commerce Hoover. This commission, which has a very long and complicated name, is studying the financial methods of school systems, the point being that schools are meant to run, like municipal industrial corporations, for the greatest public good at the least public cost. Secretary Hoover himself appeared at another meeting, told his hearers that the country's educational plant is greater than any other...
Officer of the N.C.E.E.B.A.S.S.: Dr. Ballou, permanent President. Members: Hon. John James Tigert, U. S. Bureau of Education; Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, onetime Pennsylvania superintendent; Elliot H. Goodwin, U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Ernest Greenwood, District of Columbia education board; Professor George D. Strayer, Columbia University; John H. Beveridge, National Education Association...
...again, on again, gone again Finegan." The Harvard Magazine is on again! Springing from unknown parentage last year, it has staggered along a chequered path, and only saved itself from collapse last month by resorting to the well-known ruse of the possum. By playing dead for one issue it has been able to recover enough vitality to totter around for one more lap before its inevitable fall...