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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expressing complete satisfaction with the number of undergraduates who have applied already this fall for study guidance (and subsequent tutoring in some cases under graduate school specialists), Stanley C. Salmen '36 said that he was pleased with the progress of the Supervision Bureau. Salmen is the Secretary of the seven-professor Committee on the Supervision of Students...
...Count Potocki said. Its problem was to change a battlefield into a well-run and firmly established country. Taking the problem of education as an example of Polish progress, the Polish Ambassador told how illiteracy had been reduced from 40% to 18%, with educational facilities provided for everyone of school...
Meeting St. Mark's School for their first outside event December 1, the Freshman Debating Society has a heavy schedule of both interdormitory and outside debates, a recently appointed Organizing Committee of the Society announced yesterday...
...Piston Concertino for Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what...
...demand for expressions of opinion only in the class-room is a direct contradiction of a basic tenet of American education--objectivity. Such interpretation in education can be justified only by assuming that all the facts about the war have been proved, which is not the case. Then, too, school-boy minds are very easily swayed; the teacher's words are the gospel truth. Certainly a teacher has a right to present his interpretation of the facts. But he must not substitute this interpretation for the facts themselves; it must not pose as the truth...