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...Conference will be held at 10.30 o'clock this morning in Lawrence Hall for the purpose of discussing the Towner-Sterling Bill. Dean H.W. Holmes '03 of the Graduate School of Education will preside, and included in the program will be speeches by prominent educators on the subjects, "Educational Research and Investigation", "Physical Education", "Americanization or Removal of Illiteracy", "Teachers' Salaries", "Training of Teachers", and "Rural Education...
Dr.H.S. Magill will explain the origin, backing, and present status of the Towner Sterling Bill, the most important measure concerning education that has been considered by Congress since the Smith-Hughes Bill, providing for national aid for vocational education...
...general conference on the Towner-Sterling Bill, which provides for a Federal system of education, will be held in Lawrence Hall. Kirkland street, at 10.30 tomorrow morning. The National Committee for a Department of Education has asked Dean H. W. Holmes '08 of the Graduate School of Education to preside at the meeting which is to be open to the public. The program will include speeches by prominent educators on various phases of the subject concentrating upon the effect the bill will have upon Massachusetts...
...document is the most important measure concerning education that has been before Congress since the Smith Hughes-Bill providing for national aid for vocational education. The Towner Sterling Bill creates a Department of Education, with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet at a salary of $12,000 and transfers to the Department the present Bureau of Education with its equipment and personnel. It directs the department to conduct research in special fields and authorizes appropriation up to $500,000 for its administer. The most important clauses in the bill are those authorizing $15,000,000 for the removal...
...substantial character of the argument for the Department of Education is indicated by the fact that President Harding uses this argument almost solely in his advocacy on the Department of Welfare. It is the programme of national activity in education worked out in the Sterling-Towner bill that gives any basis at all for the creation of a new department. Then why not accept this programe and incorporate it with the welfare proposal into a combined Department of Education and Welfare? This is not ideal, but at least it offers a common-sense way of satisfying the demand...