Editorials on feminization of teaching and public lecture centers
A pair of editorial excerpts discuss feminization of American public school teaching, faulting women teachers for weak discipline and character formation, plus the low pay and short school terms. They note experimental psychology’s slow remedies and contrast with lecture centers in New York City and the potential citizen benefits of funded courses in country towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
Hall
Chicago
Free municipal lectures replace old lyceum system
The article contrasts the decline of the traditional lyceum with the rise of free public lecture courses in major cities like New York Chicago and Boston. It notes the shift from paid philosophical talks to accessible municipal programs held in schoolhouses, offering varied topics plus music and visual entertainment using modern projections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyceum
New York
Chicago
Boston
Why Children Are Backward In School
French scientists study backward children, attributing most cases to false abnormality or physical defects. Vision and hearing problems, unrecognized disabilities, and illnesses like neuralgia and adenoids slow development, while dental nervous system links are noted by experts. Regular medical checks are advised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RENCH
The Chinese in America and ancestral ties
The Washington Post argues that despite birth in America, a Chinese person remains tied to China by ancestry and burial rights. It questions why the Chinese government would push literacy in old Chinese when migrants plan to return or be buried in their homeland, challenging the view of Chinese abroad as temporary residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hina
America
Washington
Destiny in a Barrel of Apples and a British Suitor
A young woman known as Ivy drafts a note to a mystery admirer after sending a photo from her field. A London suitor, Archibald Pole-Wrensford, replies and travels to New York then Chicago, seeking Ivy and exposing a clash of class and romance amid a summer of farming life.
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Australia
Tie
Ivy
Chicago
Squire Archibald Pole-Wrensfordsiey
Waggoner’s Wells
Surrey
England
New York
Baronet
Copeus
New York City Growth Cited In Various Urban Facts
A collection of eclectic notes highlights New York City expansion and local notes. Topics include oats for animals, caterpillar feeding, Wellington’s wooden parliament, hardwood scarcity, patent medicines spending, mirror tarnish risks, tea consumption, schooling strain, Wordsworth education site, high rent taxes on saloons, water supply increases, and a misc quote about misapprehension.
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Parliament
Wellington
New Zealand
Missouri
Kansas
New York Broadway
New York City
Hawkshed Grammar School
Awbieside
Wordsworth
Edwyne Sandys
York
Various World Excerpts Include Bridges Bills and Bets
A collage of notes reports rapid pontees bridge builds across the Spree in forty minutes and a $2,400 storm Goer design project. It notes a $40,000 wireless triegraph planned for Newport, a failed Berlin brewery, new ice cream freezer tech, rubber growth in India, a long Philadelphia leather belt, and harbor lighthouse foundations in Delaware Bay. It mentions a Pingland to West Africa paddle wheel voyage, jury in Boston Record, a monument in Ponca City cemetery, a Methodist leadership change, linguistic diversity in India, Arab character traits, and nocturnal non sleepers among animals. Parliament House Melbourne is described as rushed by the unemployed.
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Tea
India
Philadelphia
Harbor of Refuge
Delaware Bay
Pingland
Africa
Draper
Massachusetts
Prouty
Vermont
Boston Record
W. B. Haggins
Peanut Bus
Ponca City
Sicane
Oxia
Cyrus D. Foss
Methodist Episcopal Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
Luther B Wilson
Parliament House
Melbourne
Parliament of
Victoria
Beethoven and the trade of music early 1900s letters
An excerpt discusses Beethoven’s dealings with publishers, noting prices in guineas and the idea of exclusive rights. A 1892 Vienna letter offers a patroness limited ownership of a sonata for a year at five guineas, with publishing rights reverting to Beethoven thereafter.
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Mousic Ormat Leipsig
Beethoven
Vienna
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