Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the first time since the organization of the Student Union that a Freshman unit has undertaken to put on a program of its own. Later in the year they will work into the activities of the parent organization. Laurence S. Levy '39, a member of the executive committee of the Student Union, is acting as Freshman adviser...
...instructor testified in the probate court that his quarrel with his parent has been over his choice of a career and because he wished to engage a butler after his marriage...
...Many a parent who confidently sits down at the parlor lamp to help his offspring tackle his homework finds that he has attempted more than he can handle. Published last week in Philadelphia was a convenient 236-page treatise, Algebra for Parents* calculated to save elders considerable embarrassment when asked to explain anything from simple addition to the binomial theorem. It was as ingratiating, discursive, and adroit as its author, a 59-year-old Philadelphia lawyer named Samuel Bryan Scott...
Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...
...Street Settlement, and knows the hazards city life presents to the young. Deploring the fact that for generations musicians have been writing down to the young, he wrote 21 songs, for which Composer Marks did 21 tunes, which are mature, rhythmic yet easily singable, easily playable by teacher or parent. The collection is to be published as Sing a Song of Safety, with illustrations by Rose ("Kew-pies") O'Neill...