Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when educational methods are undergoing a sweeping change, a complete analysis of present principles and experimental improvements, written by a man whose experience and vision mark him as one of the great educational leaders of the country, challenges immediate attention...
...Little combines the rare ability to drive straight home to the heart of the situation with a clarity of vision and a spiritual vividness that is profoundly invigorating. He sends his barbs, his shafts and his thunderbolts in well ordered legions. His keenness is surpassed only by his Utopia. He applies the spur so much needed in arousing an earnest interest in education, the most permanent social contribution of the age. There is no individual, no member of society who can afford to overlook this living philosophy. The leaders of the coming generation, especially, should consider themselves ignorant unless they...
...deputies were not calm. Wrathful lacemakers' representatives demanded revenge duties of 200% on U. S. automobiles and parts, prohibitive duties on other articles. Up rose Georges Scapini, famed "blind deputy" who lost his sight in the War, whose affliction seems to have given him a detachment and a vision denied most of his colleagues...
...remarks by soothing any Columbian feathers that might become ruffled later. Said he: ''Teachers College is by far the greatest center for the study of educational method and philosophy in both hemispheres . . . [its yearbooks] the best telescope through which the student can now sweep into his vision the educational changes of the world...
...delivered by Dr. Salig Hecht of Columbia University at the Harvard Medical School. Longwood Avenue, Boston, under the auspices of the Howe Laboratery of Ophthalmology. Dr. Hecht, who was formerly connected with the Harvard Medical School, will speak this afternoon on "Visual Actuity," and Thursday afternoon on "Color Vision". The lectures will begin at 5 o'clock, and are open to members of the University...