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...Emerson pupils whispered, gestured, glowered at the dusky newcomers. They told their parents, who protested to Superintendent William A. Wirt and Principal A. E. Spaulding, who said nothing could be done. "Segregation is impossible because of economic reasons," said Mr. Wirt as tactfully as possible...
...Gary system was installed by Superintendent William Albert Wirt, who last week was obliged to deal with the strikers. The system consists in a year-round school schedule for the purpose of fully utilizing school equipment; and in elective courses, elective vacations, informal grading and self-discipline-to promote mental initiative. In last week's strike, pupils who had presumably been thoroughly Garyized for the past several years, took the law into their own hands. Students of the Gary system recalled that one criticism of it was that it would decrease teachers' influence over pupils...
...distinguished list of speakers, among them J. Stitt Wilson, Robert E. Speer, Henry Sloane Coffin, John R. Mott, Henry Hallam Tweedy, Robert P. Wilder, S. Wirt Wiley, James L. McConaughy, Francis P. Miller has been arranged...
...list of speakers who have been secured so far follows: Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, Professor Henry H. Tweedy, Dr. Robert E. Speer, Francis P. Miller, Powers Hapgood, Henry P. Van Duson, Dr. George R. Baker, S. Wirt Wiley, John W. Macdonald, Clifford Brown, Professor S. Ralph Harlow, Sidney Levett, Morgan Noyes, Kingsley Birge, John R. Brush, Allan K. Chalmers, and William D. Barnes...
...boys were constantly linked with the life of the world they were soon to enter?by an experimental farm, actual engineering work in outside businesses, trips to industrial districts, research at the Marine Biological Station. The ingredients are not all original. Our American experimental schools inspired by Dewey, Wirt and others, have many of them. But the ensemble as Sanderson shaped it was unique. And Wells is his prophet...