Tufts College Graduate, Volumes 13-14Tufts College, 1915 |
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Page 161 - I give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, to my beloved wife, Susie E. Smith, to have and to hold to her, my said wife, and to her heirs and assigns forever.
Page 43 - Our secondary school work is now at a great disadvantage as compared with the work done in the Gymnasien and Realschulen in Germany, the Lycees of France, and the so-called public schools of England. By giving six years to the high school, the boys and girls who go to college may easily have, on admission to college, a much larger amount of mathematics, languages, and other subjects than they now have. I feel quite sure that by an arrangement of this kind and a little more care in the preparation...
Page 42 - ... and thirteen. Children entering school at six years and attending regularly, finish the sixth grade at this time. This, the beginning of adolescence, marks the transition from childhood to youth. 2. Any careful study of schools in various parts of the country will reveal the fact that children now mark time to a large extent through the seventh and eighth grades. This is especially true where the methods of the elementary schools are carried through these and the children are taught by women...
Page 46 - RESOLVED, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the Society and printed in the published record of this meeting.
Page 44 - ... education should be made through the properly constituted authorities responsible to the people, and that the United States Bureau of Education is the logical and natural agency through which the people should provide such investigation. Where private agencies or foundations are utilized for such purposes, they should be held directly responsible to the regularly established authorities in charge of public education for their methods of procedure and reports.
Page 42 - Furthermore, to begin the high school with the seventh grade will make much easier the departmental work, which should begin at least this low down. It will also make it much easier to begin work in such high-school subjects as foreign languages, constructive geometry and real literature at...
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Page 203 - There are at present 123 institutions in which it is in actual practice. Of these, 45, or 37 per cent, are situated east of the Mississippi and south of Mason and Dixon's line; 5, or 4 per cent, are in New England; 35, or 28 per cent, are for men only; 8, or 6.5 per cent, are for women ; and 80, or 65.5 per cent, are coeducational. Of these institutions, 101 have the honor system in all departments, 22 have it in some departments only. In addition to the 123 institutions...
Page 42 - I know of no valid reason," he said, "for the present plan of eight and four years of school. There should be six years of elementary and six years of high school, the high school period being divided into two sections of three years each. "There are many reasons for the change. Children twelve and thirteen years old are at the beginning of the transition period between childhood and youth. They should not be kept doing elementary work. At present the pupils in most school systems mark time to a...
Page 203 - York are hereafter to be placed in the hands of a joint committee composed of three members of the Faculty, to be appointed by the president, and four members of the senior class, to be chosen by the Student Council.