Word: publication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor E. Allison Peers, of the University of Liverpool, reviewed the subject of "Spain Today and Tomorrow," at a public lecture in Emerson D last night under the sponsorship of the Department of History and of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...
...rather to a negative quantity. For the baiters are on the march, and the shout of "Communistic professors" again echoes over the land. There is little which can do more to harm the teaching profession than such recurrent campaigns. Not only do they destroy the faith which the general public must have in its teachers, but they also provoke the over-zealous watch-dogs of legislative chambers to blows at academic freedom. There is but one word for the whole episode: regrettable...
Courses in psychology, modern European history, economics of public utilities, and general zoology will be offered starting this week for Greater Boston adults by the Commission on Extension Courses of Harvard and ten other Boston institutions. These are being offered in addition to the 26 courses given by the Commission last fall...
...must also be recognized by the general public. For, until it is, teaching standards will remain low, and teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...
...what purports to be "the first statistical proof of how the nation as a whole values a college education," Fortune's February Survey of Public Opinion reveals that almost half of the nation's families believe that a college man has the best chance for "success...