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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prefer deaf drivers to any kind. I wish to say that this statement is entirely wrong, if it means that graduates or student; of this college are quite often employed as paid drivers and are taught this kind of work at our institution. Some institutions for the deaf do teach automobile repairing. Many deaf people drive automobiles with safety and skill, many of them our own graduates. I understand a few of them have driven automobiles for hire; but, in our own institution, we do not encourage students to own automobiles, as we feel that it is too great...
This waste in modern education Professor Wood regards as abnormal and unnecessary. He claims that the first duty of the educator is not to teach, but to learn; to learn what the student can learn, to discover what he should try to learn and how he may be most efficaciously helped to learn. The point is not new. Educators have always spent a large part of their time in fulfilling their "first duty." Much has been accomplished, and with the development of the fields of education and psychology, much greater advances may be surely predicted...
Such a course would be established to teach the drama, not from a literary, but from an appreciative stand-point. It would be a comprehensive history of stage technique and stage effect from Greek to modern times. It would be in brief a History 1 of theatrical production. Last year-Fine Arts 28 was given as an aid to instruction in acting, but it was a small course, limited to graduates, and with the discontinuance of the 47 Workshop it too became bracketed in the college catalogue...
...instruction through which the undergraduate, as well as his elders, might attain a proper knowledge and appreciation of stage production. Thus it would serve as another way for the student to round out a truly liberal education. The Fine Arts Department already has several men fully competent to teach such a course, and there are, outside of Harvard, others readily obtainable. Only official sanction is needed to convert this suggestion into a highly desirable actuality...
...though; a wide dissemination of the facts of evolution would remove the fear of held tire in the popular mind, than perhaps I should agree with Mr. Bryan. It must be admitted that evolution will not teach a man to be good, whereas the element of fear in religion may intimidate him into behaving him self...