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President John H. MacCracken of Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) was present among the Presbyterians, and though he made no notable pronouncement, in his annual presidential report, published at Easton during his absence, he had written of the growth and maturity of U.S. secondary schools, which are now being built at the rate of one a day. "There is little in the college life of the last generation which does not find its reflection and imitation in the life of the preparatory school of today. If the college is to maintain its claim to a position superior to the preparatory school...
Eminent educators present: President Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart (Frankfort, Ky.), foe of illiteracy; C. T. Wing, President of the National Union Of Teachers of England and Wales; Dr. P. Kuo, onetime President of South Eastern University (Nanking, China) ; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan of Washington, D. C., who arose and announced a World Hero Prize Competition (12 prizes, $100) open to the schoolchild essayists of the world. Any school might submit essays on twelve heroes. The competition would end on "World Goodwill...
...Henry N. MacCracken Vassar...
Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, N. Y.) listened, at her 60th exercises, to President Henry Noble MacCracken on Leisure: "Whither has it gone? Can we find it again? . . . The word is, of course, Latin and means 'it is permitted.' It implies a positive, constructive, creative life...
...twelve to tour the Library. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Vassar College, in its 63rd year, abandoned a precedent, allowed the freshmen to report the same day as other classes, instead of a week earlier. The enrollment was kept down, as of late years, to 1,150. President Henry Noble MacCracken was heard in the college chapel, likewise Dean C. Mildred Thompson. The dominant innovation of the year was a "court of appeals" for student government- teachers and taught holding the bench jointly. At Washington, D. C., the Navy Department announced the establishment, at George Washington University and at St. John...