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...tame him, American horses have had their ups & downs. Automobiles brought them a down; Depression has given them an up. Wayne Dinsmore of Chicago, secretary and propagandist of the Horse Association of America, announced last week that the horse is once more the chief source of horsepower on Mid-western farms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Return of a Native | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

Last week Dr. Kellogg completed a comprehensive series of tests, reported on his experiment to the Mid-Western Psychological Association at its meeting in Bloomington, Ind. The tests tended to show that most of the behavior of both human and simian infants is not natural but acquired through teaching. The chimpanzee, having a shorter lifespan, develops more rapidly than a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Babe & Chimpanzee | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Harvard is not aware that a representative of a new organization formed to raise college cribbing to the position of a major industry has visited Cambridge in an effort to obtain perjured testimonials for the organization to be used in drumming up business in mid-Western colleges and universities. It was declared today by Robert K. Lamb, Secretary to the University for Information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Cribbing | 4/22/1932 | See Source »

...contrast to the American Sociological Society, the membership of the Eastern Sociological Conference, which now numbers about 300 prominent sociologists, is restricted to sociologists who have actually made some contribution to social science, or who occupy professional positions in eastern or mid-western universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIOLOGISTS TO ATTEND NEW YORK CONVENTION | 4/12/1932 | See Source »

...adapted for his job, while an excessive amount of it may dampen the originality and enthusiasm of a person with a genuine interest in his material. Furthermore, attention to the method, at the expense of the substance of teaching is much like giving courses in expression, as do some mid-western colleges, to students who have nothing to express. True education is an art more than a science. And as an art, although it has definite rules, its meaning and spirit depend on the inspiration of the teacher. Only in rare cases will a teacher gain new inspirational power from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LETTER KILLETH | 3/10/1932 | See Source »

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