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...could be named for him. Mr. Roosevelt wrote a warm acceptance to Professor Coolidge, saying lie was "delighted and greatly honored." Mr. Coolidge, to whom the idea had apparently never occurred, found that the terms of the gift made this solution impossible, and was forced to write his former pupil that he had been the victim of a prank
...Minor. Historically, he wrote it in 1822, two years before he became music teacher to Caroline Countess Esterhazy, with whom he may have been in love. According to this picture, Schubert (Hans Jaray) actually finished the symphony, tore up the end of it out of chagrin at seeing Pupil Caroline (Marta Eggerth) married off to a Hungarian nobleman...
...Theatre in Petrograd, encouraged the boy so long as he was content to remain an amateur. He went dutifully to the University to study law but his marks were consistently poor. At 20 the die of his career was cast when the great Rimsky-Korsakoff took him for a pupil...
...small class. Doubtless the learning that can be summarized in outlines and tested by surveys can be equally well delivered to larger groups, but the deeper, more permament, more valuable influence that is the essence of education depends upon personal contact and the interchange of ideas between teacher and pupil. If this were not true, the whole school system might almost be replaced by an expanded series of public libraries...
...name that have been impoverished by an elaboration of school structure? . . . Yet when we recall that American soda fountains draw more revenue than is expended on the 148,712 little red schoolhouses that are still open, the figures which follow indicate no extravagance. In 1931 Massachusetts spent $109 per pupil, New York $137, Georgia...