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Several of the most engaging passages in the psychological works of James describe what he imagines to be the experience of animals. "To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which...
...doing something about the frustration of pioneers like Raymond W. Hilliard [Dec. 14] as he tries to teach "little-red-hen" materials to adult illiterates...
...biggest single educational problem in Chicago's program, which is now being eyed by other big cities, is a lack of suitable primers for adults. "We can't have these grown men and women reading about the little red hen," says one official. To meet the need, teachers are writing their own readers, inventing new educational tricks. They are winning the confidence of their pupils, some of them so self-conscious about their lack of education that one man, for example, habitually carried a newspaper with him to mask his total illiteracy. Next month, enrollment will reach...
...creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
Fenn's blitz is described by one teacher as "memorize, memorize, memorize. Listen and memorize, say and memorize, see and memorize."Even the most enthusiastic Thayer student realizes he will eventually sigh: "Wo hen lei [I am very tired...