Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKeen Cattell, founder and editor of the weekly educational journal "School and Society", has been joined in the editorship of the journal by Professor W. Carson Ryan Jr. '07 of the Department of Education at Swarthmore College and by Dean Raymond Walters of Swarthmore College. Professor Ryan was formerly with the United States Bureau of Education and was recently Educational Editor of the New York Evening Post. Dean Walters is a graduate of Lehigh University and was formerly Registrar and Assistant Professor of English there. "School and Society" is said to share with the Educational Supplement of the London Times...
Most of the courses are supported from the endowment of the Lowell Institute. By the provisions of the founder of the Extension Courses, the price of a course was to be equivalent to the cost of two bushels of wheat. As a result the Commission has set a fixed rate of $2.50 for a course running half a year and $5.00 for a course continuing throughout the whole year. Fees for those courses not supported by the endowment fund are slightly higher...
...natural result of the turmoil of thought, the ebullition of feeling that accompany and follow a great war. Men's minds are like the sea after a storm, where, although the wind has gone down, the billows still roll and break, irresistible in their huge mass, and threatening to founder even the ship that has ridden out the gale. Conditions have not yet returned to a normal state; nor has the world adjusted itself to them. In such a state of bewilderment, of misunderstandings, of cross purposes, what is needed? The answer is clear thinking...
President Lowell's speech, which dealt chiefly with the relations between the colleges and the scholars of the land, began with a tribute to Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the University of Virginia, saying of him that "in his later years of well-earned repose, he lit here a beacon to diffuse the light of learning he held needful for the people he had served so long...
Miss Addams is chairman of the Woman's Peace Party and of the International committee of Women for Permnent Peae. She was the founder of the Social Settlement of Hull House in Chicago, and is the author of several books, "Newer Ideals of Peace", "Twenty Years at Hull House" and "The Long road of Women's Memory...