Word: calvert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whooping-cough epidemic in 1908 quarantined Baltimore school children at home. The faculty of Calvert School mailed lessons to its whoopers, later developed a Home Instruction Division for grades from kindergarten to first year high school. Thanks to this necessity-mothered beginning, children can get a standard U.S. education anywhere the U.S. mails can reach...
...Calvert School today has some 300 day pupils. Its unique service goes to 3,000 shut-in or isolated children in all of the 48 states and such odd spots as Poona, Ruanda-Urundi, Juneau, Waialua, Horta, Haiti. It is constantly expanding: last week Calvert was taking on U.S. children who will study as a group in Nicaragua's torrid Managua...
...year (except for the preprimary and postgraduate years), Calvert provides a teaching manual, textbooks, tests, charts, maps, scrapbook, pads, pencils, ruler and other materials. For an additional $16 the pupil may send work in for criticism by regular Calvert teachers. The school gives certificates, neither seeks nor earns profit from its absentee students...
...Henry L. Shattuck. Paul H. Buck, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, Jerome D. Greene, former Secretary to the Corporation and Secretary of the Board of Overseers, David M. Little, Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House, and A. Calvert Smith, Secretary to the Corporation and Secretary of the Board of Overseers were other Harvard notables present...
Professor Simons. Article No. 2, in a 15-page pamphlet put out by the American Economic Review, was written by Henry Calvert Simons, associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago...