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Charles Townsend Copeland has been one of those rare scholars who have truly appraised the personal relation between teacher and pupil. He relied more on direct contact than on lectures, books and formulas, but his courses nevertheless have been popular, and the fame of his readings has traveled far beyond collegiate circles. But it has been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence...
...tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90?) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later, leaving him a paralyzed son. He went to Vienna. Teaching tormented him. He turned pupil himself again, studied two years with Leschetizky, practiced eighteen hours a day. Success, fame, immortality loomed...
...lecture system is to continue (and most evils in this world do continue) then the remedy, from the present standpoint of the student, lies in changing the lecturer as often as possible. In Continental universities pupils are in the habit of transferring themselves from one institution to another, whereas in this country the tradition is for a student to remain under one set of teachers throughout his entire curriculum. A system has been started in a feeble kind of way so far as this country is concerned of exchanging professorships or lectureships. This is all in the right direction...
Professor Coolidge, who became professor of history in 1908, was born in Boston on March 6, 1866, the son of the late Joseph Randolph Coolidge. A pupil of the late William Everett in his preparatory school days at Quincy, he was prominent as an undergraduate in the scholastic and social life of the University, being a member of the Dickey, the Pudding and the Fly clubs as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Society and taking his degree summa cum laude in History...
Principal Tate spent a good part of his time explaining to the eighth grade how and why the theory of evolution was incredible and wicked. Last week pupil Elizabeth Walker scampered up to Principal Tate saying, "What is the difference between evolution and revolution?" Principal Tate told her what revolution was; told her to look in the dictionary for the other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very...