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Like many another U. S. literary prizewinner, slender little Mrs. Van Etten had done no previous professional writing, turned out a regional story as her first big job. After winning an M.A. at Columbia in 1928, Mrs. Van Etten returned to Mt. Vernon to teach at Cornell College, where she had been graduated three years before, learned about her native State by helping a county nurse make a survey of rural bathing habits. She began I Am the Fox after arguing with her husband about whether foxes object to being hunted, finished it because of the "relentless goading and browbeating...
William J. Thomas, of the Social Science Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, has been named Lecturer on Sociology, and is to teach an undergraduate course on group habit systems...
Seniors who think of going into teaching may be tempted to make one mistake that is so serious as to be almost fatal: They may try to get a job without the training that will enable them to make teaching a career. It is still possible for the "raw A.B." to find a position as a teacher, but it will be a position in a small public school or in a private school that takes apprentices for small pay. The larger cities throughout the country, and most of the states, require technical courses in Education and advanced study...
Although Harvard would like to place an order for a dozen more Langers, no institution can turn out more than an incomplete chassis. There are places which could teach a man to locate most of the facts which appear in his books, "Alliances and Alignments" and "The Diplomacy of Imperialism". There are places which could teach a man to memorize broad trends and the fundamentals of elocution for classroom work. Yet these important qualifications are inadequate...
...education. In four addresses given under the Storrs Lectures foundation he declared that the nation's universities are not "coherent." They must be "strong enough and clear enough to stand firm and show our people what the higher learning is." Faculty members more interested in research than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search of "clear and distinct ideas" might do well to revive the medieval schoolmen's trivium of rhetoric, grammar...