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...Western Europe. Year by year the story of their long but steady prehistoric progress toward the period of written history is becoming clearer. They owe much to the peoples of Central Europe, who had, in turn, ben awakened by the challenge of Near Eastern civilization, How these Eastern stimuli reached Central Europe and just what effect they had there is still not clearly understood, but the Harvard-Pennsylvania expedition will, if it continues its labors, be able to enrich the museums of the two universities with collections which will be unique in the United States...
...appears certain, furthermore, that Bohemia, the region in which the expedition has thus far concentrated, was the cultural stimuli to the north and west, where our own rude ancestors lived. The contact of these folk with Central Europe remained of great importance until the Roman Empire spread across the continent, but those who lived in the northern and western parts of the British Isles were never conquered by Rome, nor were most of the people of Germany, or the Scandinavians, among whom must be classed the English, who at this early date had not yet lived in their native land...
...there is a difference of opinion as to the value of this type compared to the behavioristic mode of writing in which the actions of a character are described and explained from without. Subjective writing is very effective for that limited number of individuals who react to external stimuli in the same way that the author or his characters do. However it seems likely that in future ages it will be increasingly difficult for the reader to discern the melody in the chaos of images flitting across the character's brain. It must be admitted that Mr. Peterson does...
...Teaching of English in England" prepared by Sir Henry Newbolt's Committee and sponsored by the British government, it is interesting to note how much emphasis is laid on the problem of devising examinations in English that shall serve adequately as tests of achievement and as educational stimuli. A rereading of those trenchant paragraphs and a survey of examining processes here in American schools have prompted the Commission to consider in some detail the educational value that examinations may have in secondary-school English curricula. In this section are recorded some of the results of this reflection...
...development of an extra-curricular program at City. We have stoutly defended the cause of extra-scholastic activities in these columns, because we believe that education is not so much a process of absorption of facts and concepts as it is a functioning of the organism in response to stimuli of the social and physical environment. Book-knowledge is but the merest fraction of the learning involved in the integration of the individual to his group. It should be the purpose of any college to prepare the student for social citizenship in the broad expanse beyond its walls...