Brown University professor attacks current college education
Professor William McDonald of Brown University delivered an indictment against the present American system of college education at the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools meeting at Harvard. He called the college an aristocratic institution and criticized the professor and student body.
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William McDonald
Brown University
New England Association of
Harvard
Law A Trade The Meeting Of Educators In New England
The meeting opened yesterday with a large audience of New England educators. Three afternoon addresses were given chaired by President Faunce of Brown. Professor MacDonald criticized current teaching noting that few top minds enter teaching without independent means and that many students fail to gain useful knowledge. He argued medicine is mercenary and law a trade.
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New England
Faunce
Brown
Association
MacDonald
The Lesson of the State Universities Speech
The piece reports on remarks by U S commissioner of education Elmer E Brown at a discussion on whether colleges remain aristocratic or become more democratic. MIT professor J A Jagger Jr spoke and a Harvard Union dinner followed. Sessions at 9 and 10 a m offered further business and discussion.
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Elmer E. Brown
United States Commissioner of Education
J. A. Jaggar, Jr
Harvard Union
Vermont Diocesan Appointments Announced by Bishop Rice
In Burlington Vermont on October 14 Bishop J J Rice of the Vermont diocese announced three church appointments The Rt Rev Mgr Jerome M Clourec is named vicar general The Very Rev Joseph F Giles becomes secretary and chancellor of the ex chequer and the Rev John N Kennedy is named assistant secretary.
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Burlington, Vt
J. J. Rice
Diocese of
Vermont
Mgr
Jerome M. Clourec
Joseph F. Giles
John N. Kennedy
Creamer Nominated by Acclamation for Seventh District Race
Walter H. Creamer of Lynn was nominated by acclamation as the Democratic candidate for Congress in Massachusetts seventh district.
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Lynn
Walter H. Creamer
Massachusetts
Congregationalists Urge Public Control of Burials
The National Council of Congregational Churches considers municipal control of undertakers and cemetery ownership to protect citizens from unjust charges. The Congregational Brotherhood will aid a principles declaration aligning church with labor in economic reform. The centenary of the American Board of Foreign Missions closed, and Dowd’s funeral reform proposal was referred for future action.
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Congregationalists
National Council of Congregational Churches of America
Quincy L. Dowd
Illinois
Congregational Brotherhood
Congregationalism
American Board of Foreign Missions
National Council
Tremont Temple
Dowd
Man in Philadelphia with his six foot snake is jailed
Charles Duffy of Paulsboro arrives in Philadelphia with a pet six foot snake named Rajah and a bundle described as third rail. After two discharged prisoners mistake the sight, police arrest Duffy and relocate him with Rajah to a jail cell.
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Charles Duffy
Paulsboro
Duffy
Eleventh and
Winter Street
Rajah
Golden
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Wilson
Sermon Attacks the Rich Class and Special Privilege
Pastor Cady denounces economic inequality and special privilege in a Congregational address. He condemns dividends from tariffs, luxury wealth, and unearned income, urging the poor to demand equal rights and labor to reform society. The talk ends with a call for a global brotherhood and shared justice.
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Finance
Baer
George Washington
Gould
Newport
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