Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...require every Freshman to take psychological tests similar to the personality ratings now used by Sheffield Scientific School and Antioch College for the purpose of discovering defects and recommending remedies. Such a proposal does not go on the assumption that all men are capable of equal perfection, nor that it would be desirable to reduce all men to a common denominator. The best physical specimens then, as now, will become leaders in athletics, just as the best mental specimens will become the greatest scholars. The benefit of the plan will lie in preventing warped development by calling attention to corrective...
...Ambassador Sheffield called at the White House to confer with the President before returning to his post at Mexico City...
Often the "shark's" name is Cohen, or Levi, or Weinstein. In Princeton '23 his name was Saul Makrauer. In Yale '07 (Sheffield Scientific School) his name was Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
...American Charge d'Affaires in Mexico City announced to the press that U. S. Ambassador James R. Sheffield, now on vacation at home, would return to the post. The announcement was in the nature of a warning against false hopes. Rumors had been circulating in Mexico that he might never return, and Mexico would probably have been glad since he has taken a vigorous stand for the preservation of U. S. property rights (TIME, June...
CABINET). When Foreign Minister Saenz received the report of Mr. Sheffield's impending return he heartily exclaimed: "Mexico will view the event with real satisfaction...