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...1960s, though, Dalton's board joined the national clamor for more academic rigor and became ever more eager for a school that could push children into high-prestige colleges. To tighten up, the board of trustees picked a stubborn new headmaster in 1964. As it turns out, Donald Barr may now be too stubborn to survive...
Free-Choice Shtik. A former assistant dean at Columbia University's engineering school, Barr arrived at Dalton with a dim view of "orthodox" progressive education's emphasis on emotional development. Bumptious and bright, by turns pompous and ingenuous, Barr implemented the trustees' decisions to make Dalton's all-girl high school coed and to more than double the size of the school, to 1,000. The expansion permitted seven kinds of science, ten languages, 20 English courses. "My shtik" Barr said, "is freedom of choice for the students whenever possible...
...Chicago, the legendary Stringfellow Barr devised the Great Books program, and St. John's College, in Annapolis, Md., reverted to a program of readings in the classics substantially similar to the school's original eighteenth century curriculum...
Producer Richard Barr, who claims to have run into the red on all but three of the 50 plays he has mounted there, commented that "an actor isn't supposed to live on off-Broadway alone. Off-Broadway is supposed to be used for the development of careers. It was never its intention to support the industry, and if Equity thinks so, its behavior is irresponsible." It is true that off-Broadway has served as the training ground for many current stars, including George C. Scott, Jason Robards Jr., James Earl Jones, Colleen Dewhurst and Dustin Hoffman. It also...
Middlebury's hopes rest with a strong defense centered on fullback Bruce Foust, whom Witteman labeled an All-American candidate. Goalie George Barr has four shutouts this fall and has successfully stopped three of three penalty kicks during the season...