Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school, may never complete his formal education until he is twenty-seven, old enough to be Vice President of a First National Bank. Dean Leighton, after proving beyond all argument that seventeen year olds do quite as well as their elders in the Freshman Class, suggests that the age level of graduates from preparatory schools, especially private schools, be lowered...
...seventeen. Which of the two is preferable? Dean Leighton assumes, and proves negatively, that the year at college is preferable at seventeen. If so, it is extremely important that during the next few years Harvard should break down the resistance of the schools, and progressively lower the age level of their graduates. This solution seems far better than cutting the length and fullness of the college course...
...class that has been outrageously slandered for the last several years. TIME is the last place I would ever look for such an equanimous attitude, but having found it there I offer you sincere felicitations and a hope to find more often between your pages a like example of level-headed impartiality. CRAIG MITCHELL Princeton University Princeton...
...Author Peters rides another hobby-early U. S. lithographs. His two volumes on Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People, started a fierce fad. The first volume, which appeared just after the crash of 1929, sold at $40, boomed to a high of $450 before it found its present level of about $100. Volume II, priced at $75, reached a peak of $150. Having dished up Currier & Ives, Collector Peters turned his attention to other forgotten salads, put out two more books on 19th Century lithographs (America on Stone, 1931, $75; California on Stone, 1935, $60). Nothing much artistically, these...
...division of degrees into two classes, in line with the division of the student body, seems unnecessary if the standard of non-tutorial men can be raised to a sufficiently high level. This out plan for increased course work and more thorough, disciplinarian methods attempts...