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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard and Chicago. Within the space of its short life, the latter has produced a Breasted for almost every Kittredge, a Millikan for a Whitehead. And if Harvard, regards, itself as the leader in educational, innovations, it may well wink at Chicago's introduction of quarterly sessions, of learn as-fast-as-you-can methods. Europe's unblessed--the great martyrs of Democracy--are divided equally; a Bruening to Harvard, a Benes to Chicago...
...experiments, formulated and carried out a complete philosophy of education. New devices have been developed since Dewey, but still the core of Progressive Education are his central ideas: that children should be treated as individuals, a child's interests and needs should shape the curriculum, children should learn by doing (i.e., taking trips, building, painting), should practice democracy, should learn to solve the same kind of problems they will meet after school...
Early in this century Sir William Osier, patron saint of modern medicine, discovered that nearly 53% of pneumonia fatalities occurred among drunkards. Two years ago young Dr. Kenneth LeRoy Pickrell of Johns Hopkins Hospital, stimulated by Osier's statistics, set out to learn the exact manner in which alcohol lowered resistance. Last week, after a score of different experiments on 175 rabbits, he reported in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin the first satisfactory explanation for this important pathological phenomenon...
...working out exactly what he was, Mr. Arvin formulates a credo for democrats which is affirmative without being sentimental, sums it up best in Whitman's own language: "We've got a hell of a lot to learn yet, before we're a real democracy: we've gone beyond all the others, very far beyond some, but we're far from having yet achieved our dream. . . . We'll get there in the end: God knows we're not there...
Five of a Kind (Twentieth Century-Fox) indicates that something drastic will have to be done about the Dionne Quintuplets. In this, their third full-length screen appearance, they give no impression of taking their profession seriously. In the first place, none of the quintuplets has bothered to learn English. In the second place, what they speak, although it sounds vaguely like French, is really some sort of squirrel talk, whose complete unintelligibility to outsiders appears to delight rather than distress the Dionnes...