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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BETTER SCHOOLS" professes to be "a survey of progressive education in American public schools." It is written by Carleton Washburne, the superintendent of the public school system in Winnetka, Illinois, who has transformed his schools into an educational laboratory; and by Myron M. Stearns, a graduate of Stanford University and a magazine author of note. The collaboration is a fortunate one, the joint product being both instructive and entertaining, something which cannot be said of the majority of the many books now being written on the subject of secondary education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

...Mississippi River Commission (an interstate body) and the U. S. Army engineers, respectively. The chiefs of these two bodies were put on the new U. S. Flood Control Commission. For the third member, President Coolidge sought a civilian of unquestioned neutrality. He found and named him in Carleton W. Sturtevant, aged 64, a native of Ohio, trained in Missouri, now living in the Bronx, N. Y. A lifelong dredger of rivers, Engineer Sturtevant has worked on the Mississippi, St. Lawrence, Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Signed & Consigned | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Ingraham '31 defeated Studley (M. I. T.) 6-0, 6-0; W. L. Breese '31 defeated Gutierez (M. I. T.) 6-1, 6-2; Ogden Phipps '31 defeated Slattery (M. I. T.) 6-0, 6-1; R. L. Tower '31 defeated Carleton (M. I. T.) 6-1, 6-4; J. D. Evans '31 defeated Spalding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITBECK LOSES AS TEAM HUMBLES LEHIGH NETMEN | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

Doubles--Breese and Phipps defeated Studley and Gutferez (M. I. T.) 6-2, 6-0; Ingraham and Tower defeated Carleton and Wilkinson (M. I. T.) 6-2, 6-2; Greene and Evans defeated Spalding and Slattery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITBECK LOSES AS TEAM HUMBLES LEHIGH NETMEN | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

...only one U. S. journalist has had the manly gumption to go jungaleering in Nicaragua and cable home true details of the war now being fought between U. S. Marines and the indomitable Nicaraguan guerilla, General Augusto Calderon Sandino (TIME, Aug. 1). The unique jungle journalist is Carleton Beals, now special correspondent in Nicaragua for The Nation, liberal, trenchant, enterprising Manhattan weekly review. Although Correspondent Beals was both prolix and tediously descriptive of scenery in his early despatches, it is now possible to cull one excellent purple passage and then get down to the solid news of the first interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Jungle Journalism | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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