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POUND TELLS ACACIA CLUB OF EDUCATION OF HIS YOUTH

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Roscoe Pound, Dean Emeritus of the Law School, addressed the 32nd annual Acacia Club dinner here Saturday night, comparing present-day educational ideas with those of his own youth.

The old conception of Greek, Latin, and Mathematics as the essentials of knowledge is almost completely contrary to the new, he said. The club also heard a letter from one of its alumni Paul Vories McNutt, Governor of the Philippines.

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