Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the manuscripts on exhibition in the Widener Treasure Room in connection with educational development is a display portraying the life and works of Professor Francis J. Child, or "Stubby", as he was known to the undergraduates at Harvard. He corrected English A themes for 25 years, even though he had attained national fame as a writer of ballads. There are ten characteristic poses of the man, both as student and as teacher...
There can be little doubt that bravery such as few men possess is the quality of certain learned men who have spent the last two days trying to discover the private life of a poltergeist. The poltergeist is a fearful creature from the spirit world that delights in invading the realm of the finite and taking possession of luckless mortals, causing them to do all sorts of uncanny things. An eight-year old boy who is suspected of harboring such a demon was actually able to cause tables to move without any material means of propulsion when his supernatural visitor...
...Strong Hon. '16, professor in the Harvard Medical School, will show motion pictures in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock taken by members of the expedition to Africa from which he returned last fall. He will also speak, comparing the life and customs of the natives in Belgian Congo and in Liberia...
...whether all this learning has taught him how to study. The very presence of this test as part of the machinery of college entrance proves that the secondary school and college are working at purposes that may not be definitely crossed, but are certainly divergent. College prepares man for life, but the secondary school does not prepare man for college. It prepares him to pass the examinations of the College Entrance Board...
...solution that presents itself most promptly is the foundation of public secondary schools for the exclusive purpose of college entrance examination. In Germany the decision between high school or college preparation for life comes when the boy is ten years old; in England about a year later. Mental tests at ten years of age to determine eligibility for university education are believed in Germany to be equal in justice as in efficacy with eight years of trial by education...