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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robinson's "Introduction to the History of Western Europe" remains the official textbook and is used frequently in the first part of the course up to the Seventeenth Century. Robinson's "Readings" are still used likewise during the same period. Throughout the course from the Renaissance on, the "Political and Social History of Modern Europe" by Bayes is used more frequently than last year and is used regularly the last month of the course. Another important change is the discarding of the old blue-bound Hazen's "Modern European History," which was used almost exclusively for the early 19th Century...
Married. Helen Grace Carlisle, 34, novelist (Mothers Cry, We Begin); and James M. Reid, 30, textbook editor; in Manhattan...
...tries to give the student more than general understanding of the poets and their place in time. This can be done by any ordinary critical textbook. What Professor Lowes attempts to do through the minutiae that he so insistently stresses in his course is to make the student think for himself, and to inculcate in him a true and critical power of appreciation of poetry in general...
...subsidiary corporation of The Parents' Magazine, the new sheet is pocket-size, concisely written. Unlike other educational magazines it deals not with the theories of pedagogy but with the practical mechanics of school life-the choice of teachers, health room designs, classroom cinemas, luncheon menus, budgets, proper desks, textbook purchases et al. Like some 225 other U. S. publications, it has a "controlled circulation," will be sent gratis, every month except July and August, to 50,000 school superintendents, principals, architects. All others must subscribe at $2 per year. School Management, unlike most educational magazines, pays for articles. Advertising...
...first novel, Laura, at 15. She burned it soon after, as she did four more novels, three plays. She went to Somerville College, Oxford, sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famous Bach choir. After she took her degree she was commissioned to write a modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with dark hair parted in the middle and ending in ear-protecting buns, with a head that...