Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progressive movement in education has emphasized dealing with the whole life of the pupil. It has recognized the importance of a scientific approach to educational problems. It has urged that pupils should be stimulated to interested self-activity under conditions of reasonable freedom instead of "learning" assigned lessons. Above all it has aimed toward individual development and social adjustment, including intelligent, cooperative citizenship. These aims are now quite generally accepted, so that emphasis changes to examining the implications and practical applications of each ideal...
When portly Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague resigned as the Treasury's hard money adviser, he warned his onetime pupil Franklin Roosevelt that "there is no defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation other than an aroused and organized public opinion." Last week that opinion was mightily taking shape...
...secret was it that Dr. Sprague was considering resigning. The moment came when Pupil Morgenthau, as Acting Secretary of the Treasury, decided there was room for only one school of thought, announced rigorous censorship of Treasury news, forbade government officials direct contact with the Press. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague forthwith called newsmen together, issued his resignation. Said he, in a letter to the President...
...when Franklin Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York he named Henry Morgenthau Jr. to head a State Agricultural commission. Professor Warren was appointed a member of his one-time pupil's commission. Later Mr. Morgenthau headed the State Conservation Commission, and Professor Warren, again a member, surveyed the marginal and submarginal lands of the State, made recommendations on which Governor Roosevelt based his reforestation program. Thus the team of Morgenthau & Warren began to work together and Franklin Roosevelt to rely on them...
...pride in helping plan the musicales. Mrs. Harding, whose favorite piece was "The End of a Perfect Day," was less interested. Mrs. Coolidge, who plays the piano a bit herself, liked Rachmaninoff and Violinist Albert Spalding. Mrs. Hoover's favorite musician was Harpist Mildred Dilling, whose most famed pupil is Harpo Marx...