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...very well to say that such matters come under the jurisdiction of the Cambridge police, but no one can study the problem without seeing the futility of police action. It is not always easy for a middle-aged constable to round up a gang of fourteen-year-olds, and there is absolutely nothing that he can do with them once he has rounded them up. If the Cambridge police can keep adult criminals under control, they are doing all that is asked of them. The children represent a sociological problem that belongs to the municipality, the churches, and Harvard University...
Although a statement that Harvard gives fourteen different courses in elementary mathematics--all called "Math A"--would be gross exaggeration, nevertheless present lack of uniformity among the sections gives just that impression. Resolving not to permit the slightest hint of regimentation to cast its ominous shadow over their fair course, the men in charge of "Math A" have allowed the fourteen sections to become, in practice, almost wholly independent of one another. Not only teaching methods, but organization of material, examinations, and grading standards vary from section to section, and as a result men undertaking "Math A" can never...
However, simply because there can be no single examination, there need not be fourteen different ones. If each of the three or four experts would draw up a syllabus containing what he believes to be the essentials of the course, in the order in which they should be presented, and if every section were required to follow one of these plans, the number of examinations necessary would be reduced to three, or four, as the case might be. Although this would not be a complete solution, it would be a long step toward a much-needed reform...
...principles they have learned and where they may in turn become practical teachers of their administrative associates. Twenty-seven students graduated by the Harvard Bureau all held important traffic control positions, justifying the belief that American cities and states are eager for trained personnel. In addition in the last fourteen months more than two hundred men now in traffic positions have been given intensive training in summer courses. Inevitably these men will have a deep influence upon technical and administrative practices in their particular jurisdictions and through example over the regions in which they operate...
...MacDonald sing very prettily, but give the Moviegoor Deanna Durbin every time after the latter's performance in "100 Men and a Girl." Frome one who suffers from a definite aversion to child prodigies in any form, it is definitely disconcorting to have to award the palm to a fourteen year old warbler of the most unsophisticated type...