Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading rooms." Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy was an ambitious stylist, curiously preoccupied with publishing and publicizing. She continually revised her extraordinary masterpiece, Science & Health, and her followers loyally purchased 57 varieties of editions between 1875 and 1907. Many of the "bylaws" which Mrs. Eddy imperiously wrote into the Manual (laws of the Mother Church) dealt with publications, such as one forbidding Christian Scientists to patronize booksellers handling works unfavorable to her or her teachings. The smooth-running organization which Mrs. Eddy set up, with a potent, self-perpetuating Board at the top, has kept things going since her death...
Paul Schneider, 44, had taught manual training in Chicago's Washburne School since 1919. Like Chicago's other 14,000 teachers he had long been unpaid. He had borrowed to the limit on his life insurance, then let the policy lapse. Teacher
...founded 1696), was until 1923 a military institution. Surprisingly, it had no military president until then, when Major Enoch Barton Garey, a brisk, sturdy graduate of St. John's and West Point, military science professor at Johns Hopkins, became its head. Also surprisingly Major Garey, though his manual of arms textbook is standard in U. S. colleges, abolished military training at St. John's. Major Garey worked for the cultural improvement of St. John's, but he and the trustees disagreed on policies and in 1929 his resignation was announced. Last year able Douglas Huntly Gordon...
...secondary public schools comes to the fore with the recent statement of Dr. Payson Smith, state commissioner of education, that modern subjects are more essential than "sixteenth century subjects" because they "represent the needs of a modern child in a modern world." Going further, he declared that music, art, manual training, vocational and physical education should be stressed; and that English grammar and composition are far more important than Latin, Greek, or any of the modern languages. Apparently Dr. Smith is speaking in rebuttal of the recent attacks on the "frills" of modern education...
...Gushing defers to him, his laboratory at Oxford is a shrine. Everyone who meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington discovered that during either of these...