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Katharine Wistar Elkinton letter to Howard W. Elkinton
Description
Discusses the new furniture acquisitions. Reports the deaths of Walter Stokes and of Hettie Green. Discusses an article in the Atlantic by professor Abraham Flexner arguing that building "mental discipline" is a poor basis from which to justify the teaching of Latin, geometry, and other subjects he considers useless.