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Page 506 - Harvard program for the education of teachers. No change of principle or aim is involved, but the work has been brought together into a more coherent scheme and the degree has been made much more accessible. The program is still under the joint direction of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Education.
Page 624 - League" and announced that its purpose was "to bring about a fair and open-minded consideration of social, industrial, political, and international questions by groups of college students.
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Page 456 - About high questions of politics and religion their minds were open but vague; they seemed not to think them of practical importance; they acquiesced in people having any views they liked on such subjects; the fluent and fervid enthusiasms so common among European students, prophesying about politics, philosophy and art, were entirely unknown among them.
Page 113 - This course is designed to give in a shori period a comprehensive survey of the general field of work with the blind and the semisighted. It is undertaken at the suggestion of a number of educators and workers for the blind. In establishing this specialized course concerning the education of a handicapped group, the Graduate School of Education hopes both to advance the cause of service to the blind in general, and also to meet the need of students who wish to prepare themselves for teaching the...