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...Such permission must always be obtained at least 24 hours beforehand...
Parents are informed beforehand of the nature of the course; children are urged to carry home the classroom discussions. Parents and teachers, reports Superintendent Beatty, find Elementary Biology useful; many believe that it should be taught sooner, in the fifth or sixth grade...
...second, the late John Francis Stanley Earl Russell, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand (now Earl) Russell. Tiny, feminine, aristocratic. "Elizabeth" shrinks from publicity, has never written under her full name. Of her writing, reminiscent of well-bred but intelligent conversation, she says: "Like the Apostle Paul, I never think beforehand what I am to say." Other books: Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Expiation, The Enchanted April...
...That troubled Joseph Rosenstein, because he felt it made him look like a sudden-wonder prodigy whereas he has studied music for years, been generally well educated. He did not rent a dress suit for his Chicago Symphony concert. He bought one, only he forgot to try it on beforehand, found at concert time that the trousers were four inches too long, beyond benefit of suspenders. He borrowed other trousers, played brilliantly...
...past three months offer some basis for analyzing what may be the trends of future development. The houses so far naturally fail to fulfill the sweeping change of educational methods predicted beforehand, and even now somewhat naively visualized by the press and by visitors staggered by the physical splendor of the buildings. None but the most excitable, however, expected radical changes in the mental outlook of men who were to reside in the first two units. Nevertheless there has been a growth of ennui among those previously interested in the House Plan, and as the interest has waned, the sharpness...