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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate of Brown, who received his Ph.D. at Cornell, Meiklejohn returned to Brown to teach in 1897, and became Dean in 1901. For 12 years, from 1912 to 1924, he was President of Amherst College, and since 1926 he has been professor of Philosophy and head of the Experimental College at Wisconsin. Professor Meiklejohn is considered one of the leaders of intellectual life in America, and his position in the University of Wisconsin makes him peculiarly qualified to speak on experimental education...
...oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department of the Interior. The blackamoors (who speak Danish) stared in wonderment as Governor Pearson, who used to teach public speaking at Swarthmore College, rolled out a sonorous address in which he recognized the islands' "critical economic problems" and promised to aid in their relief...
Even more widely famed now than the "Kent Idea" are the Kent crews. Father Sill took advantage of the nearby sweep of Housatonic River to teach his charges what he knows about rowing. The school has grown to have 286 pupils, 20 masters, $1,000,000 in property, so nowadays there are often twelve shells on the river at once. White Cassock (outside the classroom some call him "The Great White Tent," but most, respectfully, "The Old Man") coaches the first two crews. Sometimes, in black canonicals, he doubles as the crew's deep-bellowing coxswain. His first crews compete...
Investigation disclosed that the Deni-shawns are not planning to split. What the talk simmered down to was this: Dancers Shawn and Robinson will both teach at a new Three Star Summer School for dancing teachers, which begins June 15 and lasts four weeks. The third star will be Florence Rogge, ballet mistress at Roxy's cinemansion. Leon Leonidov, production director at Roxy's, will give a course in rapid preparation of elaborate stage spectacles, admit his teacher-pupils to Roxy's dress rehearsals...
...March 17 a three weeks' course will be started in the swimming pool of the New Indoor Athletic Building for senior life-savers in the University who wish to become qualified examiners in order to teach life-saving at summer camps or elsewhere...