Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more important of these activities are researches by Professor Dearborn and his associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
Late last night Professor Coolidge said in a statement to the CRIMSON that his resignation was prompted by the pressure of new responsibilities connected with the Lowell House post, and that he found it necessary to cut down on other activities. "My life is just too full, and something had to go", he concluded...
...plot of "Her Private Affair" involves the murder of a man who had caught the heroine (Miss Harding, of course) in an indiscreet moment. Miss Harding is the charming murderess, and her subsequent trials and tribulations as she tries to work out her life, with all its complications of her con- science, as well as of relations with her husband, friends, and an innocent man suspected of the murder, form the basis of the story. Of course, the problems are solved happily in the end, but nevertheless suspense is extraordinarily well maintained...
...secured to help in the taking of these pictures. This assistance, obtained by sending out hundreds of letters, has made the Foundation's progress more rapid than could have been possible without such help. Among the collection of the University Film Foundation are now found films on microscopic animal life, uncivilized barbarians, and modern industry, medical life. The value of the motion picture as a medium of education lies in the greater impression on the mind caused by pictures, contrasted with books or even experiment, for a single film may take about 30 minutes to show a process involving weeks...
...pictures which are to be shown include "Bedouins of the Sahara", a film representing the life of these nomad peoples in its various settings. "Mediaeval Moderns" gives a glimpse of the plainsfolk of Hungary in their everyday occupations. They are seen moulding pottery, grinding with windmill power, busy about many other of their daily activities. A Sunday scene reveals their picturesque and richly colored costumes at a wedding and a dance...