Confront a 12-year-old schoolchild with this definition of a candle: A cylinder of combustible substance inclosing a wick to furnish light. No one knows better than Professor Edward Lee Thorndike that ...
THIS is part i. of an “Encyclopædia and Dictionary of Education” being issued under the general editorship of Prof. Foster Watson. The work when complete will comprise nearly 2000 large crown quarto ...