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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hety Goldman. Dr. Goldman is engaged in archaeological research for the Fogg Art Museum and is worki9ngg in cooperation with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In the fall of 1924 excavations at Eutresis, Boeotia, resulted in valuable finds; a Greek male torso of the type of the early fifth century; the lower half of an archale seated female figure; and various kinds of pottery and other minor arts...
...report points out however, that there is inherent in the plan a serious danger that Harvard students may be reduced to a type by excluding "the unassimilables" too largely. "In securing the necessary limitation of enrolment, therefore, the great object to be striven for is to avoid all extremes and preserve a certain proportion between all more or less "unassailable" groups. There should not be more than ten per cent of the latter at the most...
...million and a half in 350 commercial correspondence schools. The type: predominantly male, aged 26, with two years of high schooling, living in a town of less than 100,000, in a state with "superior educational spirit," like Iowa...
Over a million in night schools. The type: male and female, aged 19½%. Only 15% left school for financial reasons, having simply "lost interest," having returned to study because convinced by experience that "education pays." In Milwaukee and Portland, Ore., 6% of the population goes to night school. The national proportion is 51½%. Some 150,000 in university extension courses.* The type: a woman teacher aged 30, studying Romance languages, English, mathematics, history. California and North Carolina are her habitat...
...prey has remained the theatre. Skits on famous actors and actresses, like the disturbing domestic scene between Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine during the course of a serious drama, take-offs on popular plays, to whit. "They Knew What They Wanted Under the Elms", and more satirizations of similar type continued to draw crowds to the Garrick Theatre and to increase the general interest in the parodied productions...