Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection with the recent investigation of race-mixture, which have been carried on by the Division of Anthropology, Martin Luther '21 has returned recently with a larger collection of data and material concerning the physical appearance and life of the inhabitants of Lapland...
...graduate 'work, cannot be made suddenly. It is no new discovery of his--nor would he claim it is such--that American colleges, as compared with European institutions, are doing a great deal of work that belongs to the secondary schools. The question is whether, the difference in American life and American practical requirements being considered, this grade of work properly belongs to the secondary schools. Our high schools, and beneath them the elementary schools, are by these fundamental American conditions, which are very practical conditions, compelled to carry as heavy a load as they can bear. Our educational system...
...Thought" by V. L. Parrington, reviewed by Stanley Williams: "A New Englander in Japan: Dauiel Crosby Greene," by E. B. Greene, reviewed by E. A. Christie: "The Rise of American Civilization," by C. A. Beard and Marry R. Beard reviewed by S. E. Morison: "The Harvest of a Quiet Life," by Odell Shepard, reviewed by Lawrence Mayo...
American secondary schools do not complete the secondary teaching that ought to be done at the age our young men come to college. The result is that with the preparation now required for professional and business life--much longer than it was formerly--the young man does not begin his active career until a later age than is wise. An artisan at the age of 20 may be earning as large an income, and be as well able to support a family, as he ever will be; but his contemporary who is looking forward to the bar or to medicine...
...finished at too advanced an age, yet a considerable number of parents whose sons are prepared for college and pass their admission examination at 17, postpone their entrance for a year. This is almost always a mistake. The youth is taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students who enter college young are on the average better scholars and incur less serious discipline than those who are older. No doubt this is in part due to the fact...