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271:"The Porcelain Egg, or The Present Interpretation of Education to the Public." In Interpreting Education to the Public. Remarks at the Fourteenth Annual Forum on Education of The Tuition Plan at Hotel Ambassador in New York February 10, 1954., 17-28. New York: The Tuition Plan, 1954.
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Chalmers served as vice president of the Franco-American Audio-Visual
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265:"The Place of Letters in Liberal Education. Report of the Commission on Liberal Education of the Association of American Colleges." Association of American Colleges Bulletin 33, no. 4 (December 1947): 1-8.
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While at Kenyon, Chalmers was responsible for a remarkable transformation of the
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Liberal Education After the War. Denver, Colorado: The Social Science Foundation, University of Denver, 1943.
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in 1933 with a three-volume thesis on "Sir Thomas Browne's thought and its relation to contemporary ideas". On 3 September 1929, he married the poet
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256:"The Lodestone and the Understanding of Matter in Seventeenth Century England." Philosophy of Science 4 (1937): 75-95.
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289:"Sir Thomas Browne and Hieroglyphs." Virginia Quarterly Autumn 1935.
292:"Sir Thomas Browne, True Scientist." Osiris 2, no. 3 (1936): 28-79.
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