Word: presenters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That a crisis has been reached in educational affairs in this country is the belief of Henry W. Holmes '03, Professor of Education at the University. No longer can the United States continue on its shipshod course; hereafter a definite plan must be followed or the present educational system will come to ruin. With this in mind a Graduate School of Education is now in process of formation at the University...
...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
...Graduate School will also conduct research and investigation in education. It will maintain a Laboratory of Educational Psychology as at present, and in addition a clinic for the special study of children. School problems will be studied both in the schools and in the laboratory, and members of the Faculty will undertake surveys of schools and school systems. Work of this character has been conducted at Harvard since 1891, but has not developed as rapidly as at some other universities because of lack of means. Members of the present staff of the Division of Education have contributed in various ways...
...program which Mr. Garabrant will present is as follows: Prelude to the "Third Sonata," Guilmant Evening Song, Bairstow Allegretto, Wolstenholme Elfes, Bonnet Prelude and Fugue in C Minor, Bach "Solitude on the Mountain," Ole Bull Canzone, Hall La Nuit, Karg Elert Toccata from the "Fifth Organ Symphony, Widor
...only those men who have signified their desire to go, but also those who wish to know more about the convention, are urged to attend. At present it is known that 175 institutions have registered their full quota of one representative to each hundred students, and an attendance of over 8000 is expected...