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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking before a luncheon gathering at the Liberal Club, yesterday; H. M. Watkins, British Laborite, who is traveling in the United States under a Rockefeller Fellowship, said that the outstanding feature of American industry, as seen by an Englishman, is the willingness of operators to discard out of date machinery. He predicted that within a few generations American prosperity would fall into decline...
...Spanish Universities, and the English Universities except for Oxford, Cambridge, and London are run on a great deal smaller scale than Harvard", said Mr. Peers. "The result is, of course, that our professors are bothered with comparatively little organization or red tape, as compared with yours. In the University of Liverpool, for instance, there are only 1800 students. The main reason for this is that there are not anywhere near as many people in Spain or in England who are desirous of a college education as there are in America. Then too, in Spain the A. B. degree means almost...
...Although the standard is not high in the undergraduate departments", said Mr. Peers, "there is high quality work in the graduate schools. Few foreign students attend, the enrollment being small and almost entirely Spanish. In general, however, the tendency in these Universities is progressive...
Flying to the rescue of oldtime nursery rhymes came Associate Professor Annie E. Moore who teaches a course in child literature at Teachers' College. Said she: "If there's anything I abhor, it's stories about children who accomplish wonders by eating cereal and spinach. . . . Until this story came out, I never knew she [Miss Duggan] and the Bureau of Educational Service existed in the college...
...general merits of the question, there are a few things to be said for the dry side which must appeal to everyone who really wants to reach a sane conclusion. Unfortunately there are no Boston dailies except the Christian Science Monitor which will either tell the truth themselves or permit the truth to be told in their columns on this question. Harvard students at least ought to want to know the truth. Here are a few facts...