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...University of California's Berkeley campus; they had to find a school for him, and "he would have hated to cool his heels in an ordinary American school." What she delightedly found, reported Novelist Johnson, was "a very odd school indeed." It was San Rafael's booming 3R school, and odd was the word. How can a school that uses the antique McGuffey Readers be booming...
Thriving on dissatisfaction with public schools, 3R bans every possible "frill"-dances, student government, fund drives, P.T.A., and all athletics except for daily calisthenics. For a tuition of $900 a year, it offers old-fashioned work, using McGuffey and Noah Webster's 1783 Bluebook Speller (last revised in 1906). The only concession to modernity is grouping by ability in each subject, not by grades, so students can whiz through faster. Every 3R kindergartener writes and understands numbers up to 25, and some to 100. They begin reading at 4½. And it's all done without student geniuses...
Learn Now, Adjust Later. Begun three years ago, 3R has grown from 28 pupils to 335 in its Spartan, unpainted, concrete, one-story building north of San Francisco. Flooded with applications, it already has a new branch in Calistoga. plans another in Santa Rosa. Within seven years it expects to have 15 schools in the Bay area, is even mulling over the idea of a 3R chain of schools across the country, like motels...
...German bailiff, acting for 3r. Julius Puppe of Pittsburgh, attempted to serve a writ of attachment on the Columbia, because Dr Puppe claimed that Mr. Levine has owed him $11,000 since 1924. Lawyers suggested that both parties apologize, that Mr. Levine pay Dr. Puppe an unnamed sum. The German press politely tried to hush the incident...
...Sever 18 Mathematics 25, Holden Philosophy E, Harvard 5 and 6, Upper and Lower Mass. Philosophy 2, Holden Zoology 2, Pierce 103 Saturday, June 6. Anthropology 7, Sever 17. Chemistry 3, Lower Mass. Class. Philol. 50, Sever 18 Comp. Lit. 7, Sever 5 Economics 15, Sever 5 Education 3r, Lawrence 6 Engineering 3d, Pierce 103, 212 Engineering 4e, Pierce 202 Engineering 5a, Pierce 202, 209 English 3b, Sever 6 English 11b, Lawrence 1 English 29, Sever 30 English 45, Upper Mass. Geology B, Zool. Lect. Rm. Geology 15, M. C. Z. Rm. 1 German C, New Lect. Hall German...