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...statement of President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar to the effect that "Civilization, as far as children are concerned, is a good deal of a mess", is gloomy enough to be worthy of Deanlnge. Cynics may reply that civilization, as far as adults are concerned, is also a good deal of a mess, so why specify? But President McCracken is not making such a declaration without a basis for his pessimism, and least of all would he be inclined to utter it before the Child Study Association of America an organization which is noted for its tendency to see only...
...most logical disentanglement of the situation as stated by President MacCracken is to be found in another portion of his own report. "Twelve years ago at Vassar the only mention of the child in the catalogue was a reference in the sociology department to the delinquent and dependent, and in a course in psychology describing the study of mental development in lower animals and children." The cause for the evil may prove its cure. If, as some claim emphasis on scientific and hence materialistic life has been unfortunate for the spiritual state of the modern child, then careful examinations...
...speakers at the gathering in December, the Federation has been fortunate in procuring President MacCracken of Vassar, Professor Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin, and President Little of Michigan. These men will present various views upon the main topics of the Congress The Function of a University, The Influence of Extra-Curricula Activities upon College Life, The Place of Athletics in Education. Nor are these subjects which fail either in suggestiveness or practicality. If the undergraduate is to share in the development of his own institution of learning in a same and constructive fashion, these are topics vital...
...Officers. The resignation of President John Henry MacCracken of Lafayette College (elder brother of President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassal? College) was effective Oct. 1. No successor was in public sight. . . . Lincoln University (Chester Co., Pa.; for Negroes) entered its third successive year without any president at all, three candidates having been approached in-two years and found wanting some other post...
...MacCracken is young at 37. He has the same pioneering blood zooming through his arteries as have the youthful Air Secretaries Davison and Warner. With these three men in Washington, U. S. aviation is expected to emerge from the blimp era. Secretary MacCracken is a Chicagoan by birth, education, residence. The Uni versity of Chicago taught him letters and law. In the Army he taught flying at Houston and Waco, Texas. After the War he returned home, practiced law, be came Secretary of the American Bar Association. His specialty is aeronautic law. He helped formulate the Air Commerce Act, recent...