Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supervising the Teaching of Literature," will be discussed by Professor R. P. Boas, of Wheaton College. Professor T. H. Robinson, of Rhode Island College of Education, will give a talk on "Junior High School, A Supervisor's Busy Day." The last speaker, Mr. J. C. Minot, of the Boston Herald, will tell the teachers "What America Is Reading...
Sounding a warning that liberal colleges are being crushed between university and high school, Dean Stoddart of the University of Pennsylvania, in yesterday's Herald-Tribune, lays the blame entirely on the college thresholds. He charges that instead of resisting the pressure intelligently, they are yielding to the tendency to specialization. The Dean defines education as the knowledge that a man possesses outside his specialty, and maintains that it should be the sole duty of liberal colleges to provide this foundation. Hence he proposes a curriculum which would consist of a closely correlated study of all fields with no especial...
...speak from the beyond, name her slayer. The Great La Tour bets he can not. There follows a great deal of lowering and upping of stage lights. During one dark spell the Great La Tour is killed. During another, on the first night, Critic Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune disappeared. It was all right about the Great La Tour, however, because he turned out to have been a seducer of young girls...
That story was dug out of the confused scene around Shanghai last week by Associated Press. . . . Correspondent Peggy Hull of the Chicago Tribune found a German officer commanding well-drilled Chinese fighters. . . . Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune drove to Japanese headquarters near Woosung in time to see a hapless Chinese condemned to death because his captors found money in his pocket ("evidence" that he was paid to kill Japanese...
...Author? Phi Beta Kappa coal-miner, society reporter (New York Herald), Genealogist James Branch Cabell has written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces...