Word: typing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...member of the American Legion and (I believe) a good American citizen, I wish respectfully to protest against opening the columns of the University daily to the type of Sophomoric and indecent (I use the word advisedly) communications as have recently been printed over the names of Messrs. Wyman and Lippitt. It seems too bad to lower the dignity of the paper by marring its columns with such outbursts of childish petulance, no matter in how good a cause, and reminds one rather forcibly of the verbose, political fury for which certain small western journals were once notorious...
...Butler also reports that the adoption of the army psychological test at Columbia has served to bring forward a highly intelligent type of student. He also notes a change in the American attitude toward the classics, which heretofore have been neglected in an increasing degree. At the same time he describes Columbia's efforts to improve its technical and engineering courses...
...work from the pen of Lord Dunsany, who has been elected an honorary member of the club. Lord Dunsany has in the past endeavored to have his dramatic works produced, on the stage before they are published, and it is expected that the spring production will be of this type...
...been proved experimentally that there are several distinct types of minds which assimilate under different conditions. The man with the auditory mind learns by hearing or reading; the visual minds learns by seeing; and the motor minds learns by doing. The present system of education completely overlooks the third type and gives only half a chance to the second. The man who is skilfull with his hands--the mechanic, the painter, or the musician, is not given the same opportunity for development in an ordinary school that the pure student receives. Although Dr. Abbott recognizes that some men master languages...
...shop-work, drawing, and music, and by placing these subjects where they belong,--on an equal basis with Greek, Latin, and History. The chief obstacle is the college entrance system. Under the present requirements, the school devotes its whole ener-by to cram into a "dull" brain a certain type of knowledge to which it may be entirely unfitted, wholly ignoring the fact that the most "stupid" boy might be able to put the teacher to shame in the workshop or studio,--in a subject in which he has received no encouragement from his school. So long as present requirements...