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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleased with his unaccustomed publicity, Dr. Stebbins generously credits much of his success to a onetime colleague at the University of Illinois, Mathematical Physicist Jakob Kunz...
...teaching training, found that only 55 percent of the graduates of these colleges had secured jobs up to late this fall. Of these institutions, those which were denominational could find work for only 32 percent of their men, while non-sectarian Normal Schools were able to achieve 63 percent success. We have reports from 19 graduate educational schools indicating that 27 percent of the men, and 35 percent of the women who hold Master's degree are still unemployed. And of those who have received their Doctor's degree 29 percent are not yet placed after six months. New England...
...counsel does not cease with the proof of success. There is no question that the President's policy has rained the educational standards of the average man. But the founder attempts to delude neither himself nor his successor. The ideal embraced move than the improvement of the average; for were it to stop there, were there no means to encourage the full development of exceptional ability, mediocrity would be in inevitable character and ultimate frustration. President Lowell reiterates his plan for the foundation of the Society of Fellows...
Seen in such a light, the modest note of success, assumes more significance than would be implicit in a simple justification. "The trends in the College," he remarks, "have been toward a less vocational objective, a recognition of the principle of self education, and a stimulation of more vivid intellectual interests... All the more notable changes that have been made...have been designed to promote the four trends, and especially the last... They are merely a means to an end, and others might have been quite as effective; but these are the ones we have tried, and it would seem...
...Toscanini with the New York Philharmonic, stayed in California long enough this autumn to open the symphony season in San Francisco's new War Memorial Opera House, to win $25 from the beating California gave Stanford at football. Then he hurried to Manhattan where he scored the quick success that San Franciscans had prophesied for him. Dobrowen (pronounced Do-bro-vane) gets dynamic effects by constantly fluttering his left hand, tossing his black head, whipping the air nervously with his baton. Considerable excitement was aroused at his Manhattan debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony...