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In the Graduate Schools

Conferences Have Discussed Private Schools, "Going to College"

A session at 10 o'clock this morning in Agassiz House and a luncheon at the Commander Hotel in Cambridge is the program for the thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association. The group of prominent speakers who will discuss "Intelligence: Its Nature and Its Measurement" includes W. J. Cooper, commissioner of education in Washington, D. C.; Agnes L. Rogers, professor of Psychology in Bryn Mawr; H. W. Holmes '03, dean of the Graduate School of Education; F. N. Freeman, professor of Educational Psychology in the University of Chicago; W. F. Dearborn, professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education; and Leonard Carmichael, professor of Psychology in Brown University.

A series of nine conferences has preceded the meeting of the teachers' association. At a conference on secondary education E. R. Smith, headmaster of the Beaver Country Day School, defended the private schools, which Professor Thomas H. Briggs attacked in the Inglis Lecture for 1930.

At a conference on "going to college", Henry Chauncey '27 suggested that courses similar to those taken in college be given to all last-year students in preparatory schools, and that the incoming Freshmen be set thinking about their college schedules early in the summer, with less reliance placed on faculty advisors.

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