Word: prosser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard King Mellon, 40, successor to his uncle, the late Andrew William Mellon, as head of the Mellon financial empire, has plenty of chicks but no child. Last week he and his 29-year-old wife, Constance Prosser McCaulley Mellon, adopted a two-months-old boy. To newshawks who begged for the largesse of a look at the child, Father Mellon gave short change...
...Prosser's speech was as frank and complete a statement of the vocational view of education as could be found, but a gloomy picture of the future of democracy is painted by his sturdy, scientific facing of the facts. His realism frankly admits that the mass of humanity cannot be decorated much, and in meeting the problem of unemployable youth he would at least make them skillful drones during the incubation period. "Now, and not at some indefinite time to come, education should be integrated with life and kept integrated for all time to come," Dr. Prosser stated...
...Prosser rejects "cold-storage knowledge" in repulsive psychological terminology on the grounds that the student "loses all such indispensable assets for efficient learning and its retention as interest, motivated incentive, and adequate epperceptive basis for understanding what is taught, and adequate opportunity to apply, test, and fix it through participating experience." Hutchins is not needed to point out that giving the student what he wants can be carried too far. Dr. Prosser, with his deadly scientific bias, has a mortal fear of what he calls "preachment," which he lumps together with "untried theories and mere factual learning" as the evils...
Those who heard Dr. Charles A. Prosser's lecture on "Secondary Education and Life" last night will be forced to reconsider what they mean by "education." "Nothing could be more certain," he said, "than that science has proven false the doctrine of general education and its fundamental theory that memory or imagination or the reason or the will can be trained as a power." What Dr. Prosser would substitute is "specific education" for the secondary schools, and under this vocationalism he would add to the curriculum such subjects as practice in the use of English as "a tool of communication...
Charles A. Prosser, Director of the William Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute of Minneapolis, Minnesota will deliver the fifteenth annual Inglis Lecture on April 14 in the Littauer Center auditorium, taking "Secondary Education and Life" as his subject, it was announced yesterday...