Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's leaders of education have dealt thoroughly with the problems of who should be admitted to our universities and what they should be taught, but little attention has been paid the perplexing situation which faces almost every student upon graduation. If educators are interested in the implanting of aim into the student mind and its direction toward some goal, they should also consider how, under present economic conditions, he can best use his training. Although the university's purpose may not be vocational, it is essential that its teaching take interest in the student by including some hint...
...that the graduate think of his own community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With the age of social well-being on the horizon, educators must soon recognize the problem of misused education, and instead of leaving the student on the threshold of life to grope for his niche, they should point out the advantages of applying his training in his own community. It is time for a new Horace Greeley to rise and shout, Go Home, Young...
...Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other members included Vassar's President Henry Noble MacCracken, Cornell's ex-President Livingston Farrand, Harvard's Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Columbia's William Heard Kilpatrick. They proposed that U. S. colleges give sanctuary and scholarships to the students fleeing the universities of the Fascist countries "because of their belief in democracy." They would be selected by the International Student Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large universities would each take a dozen or more refugees, that...
...committee of famed football coaches were to call on the average U. S. college president and offer him as a student a halfback like Red Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain...
...third successive year, the University will maintain a student guide service this summer, while the Medical School with institute the service for the first time...