Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To guide students in a choice of occupation, and to give them understanding of the basic economic problems of modern civilization, is one of the most serious tasks confronting. American schools today, Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said in his annual report made public...
A prevailing "economy illiteracy," or failure of great masses of people to comprehend the economics of daily life and the problems of business, makes the discovery of satisfactory teaching methods and materials in this field an urgent responsibility of educators, Dean Holmes said.
Noting that America has been called "a nation of economic illiterates," Dean Holmes observed that "perhaps the whole world is economically illiterate."
Dean Holmes urged cooperative study of this problem by the Faculty of Education, and other faculties at Harvard. "It is even possible that the attempt to assist in determining what can and should be taught in schools concerning schools can and should advise and guide economic and occupational life and...
Inexact vocabularians have reckoned the average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words. Recently, however, Northwestern University's Psychology Professor Robert Holmes Seashore* devised a scientific test to determine the total number of English words a person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using...