Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordinary requirement of credit in courses. Every student in the School combines in his program the theoretical study of Education and advanced work in the special subject he expects to teach, and if he is not to be a teacher, work in subjects allied to his special interest, as for example in psychology if he is to be a school psychologist or in government if he is to be an administrator. Practice teaching is the easiest form of apprenticeship to arrange and supervise; but the School has the co-operation of a large number of neighboring school systems for apprenticeship...
...attempting to become an authority on the whole field of Economics might be examined on some more restricted subject such as Public Finance or Governmental Regulation of Public Utilities in such a way that he would be able to focus his knowledge of Economics on something of real interest to his own line of study. Under such a plan a broad basis of knowledge in the related fields would still be essential, but the grind of going over the details of elementary courses would give way to more profitable and interesting study. Some sort of move in this direction would...
Next June the last group of such undergraduates join the ranks and already the ruffied relations are smoothing. Mr. Bingham has all along showed his interest in stilling the seething waters and something tangible in the nature of renewed relations is promised for the near future. His patient efforts should bear early fruition with the thinning in the undergraduate population of those who were directly influenced by the incident. BY TIME...
...News", an all-talking picture of newspaper life, starring Robert Armstrong, Carol Lombard, and Sam Hardy, holds your interest to the end. The cynical, sarcastic atmosphere of the news room is there: the big scoop, the ceaseless waste of energy. Even a trite denouncements brought about through a dictaphone roll, does not blemish the effect of the whole...
...which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem for scientists in the difficulty of explaining why the gorilla should not be found elsewhere, and also...