Word: mr
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...morning session, the speakers were Rev. Endicott Peabody, head-master of Groton School, and Mr. E. J. Goodwin, second Commissioner of Education in the state of New York. Speaking on "The Training and Responsibilities of Parents," Dr. Peabody said that everything in modern education depends on the influence of the home in regard to the intellectual and moral ideals of boys and girls. Parents should begin the training of their children early, and be more strict in refusing their children pleasures that will interfere with their school-work. There should be some real home interest in the life...
...Mr. Goodwin spoke on "The School and the Home." He said in contradiction to Dr. Peabody, that it is the public school and not the home that has the greatest influence upon education. The non-success in teaching is due to the failure of the teacher to get into communication with the parents. If the ideas of the parents and the teachers do not converge to a common end, good results cannot be secured from public schools. Moreover, since the greater proportion of the boys who leave school on completing the elementary grades, find themselves inadequately fitted for earning wages...
...annual dinner of the Association was held in the Union at noon. After the dinner, speeches were made by Mr. J. J. Storrow '85, chairman of the Boston School Committee, Professor Suzzallo, of the department of Education in the Teachers' College of Columbia University, and President Eliot...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Basal Body and the Blepharoplast." Mr. H. N. Conser. "The Chemical Changes involved in Various Methods of Silver Impregnation of Nervous Tissue." Mr. R. C. Mullenix. Short Paper. Mr. S. C. Palmer. Zoological Laboratory, Room...
...DIVINITY SCHOOL. Devotional Service with Sermon. Mr. W. S. Archibald. Divinity Chapel...