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...textbook and listening to recitations, had to learn their job all over again. Says Author Aikin: "The teacher has always had the leading role in schools everywhere. In democracy's high school his part becomes even more important. He does not merely play his assigned part; he helps select the play and is concerned with the whole production...
Perhaps the most striking of these was the proposal that the government select the intellectual cream of the high school graduates and give them a college education at government expense, pointing toward specialized war work. Peace-time pundits would be aghast at the mere thought, raising the cry of government control of education with all its totalitarian implications. There are dangers in subsidization from Washington, but even in normal days they could be successfully controlled. At any rate, the plan seems eminently feasible as a crisis measure; in the sort of war we are now waging it might well...
...Association at the Harvard Club of Boston, Harte is a member of the class which is holding its 25th reunion in June. His duties as Chief Marshal will consist of directing the traditional procession of Alumni through the Yard on the afternoon of Commencement Day, and he will select the Aids and Marshals who will assist him with the day's alumni program...
Oldest and most select club of U.S. artists (328 members) is the National Academy of Design. This week, aged 116, the National Academy opened a new home, its first permanent quarters in over 40 years. The new Academy, gift of shy Millionaire Archer M. Huntington, who, with his family, has probably founded more museums (13) than any other private citizen in the U.S., consists of two classical greystone Fifth Avenue mansions, spliced together with elevators and other modern fixings...
...group of painter friends in protest against the poetry readings and discussions of landscape gardening that went on at the American Academy of Arts, the National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...