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...King?still partial to General Berenguer?made him Chief of the Casa Militar (Royal Military Household ). Many believe that the wily General managed in this intimate post to sow suspicion, then hate, between King and Dictator. The seed has been four years in sprouting ?and economic factors have been at least as potent as intrigue...
...city's poor families, but during the day, while the adults were at work, urchins reveled in the courtyards, ran riot in the long halls. Signor Talamo set aside playrooms for the children, urged Dottoressa Montessori to take them in hand. Thus was founded the first Casa del Bambini. Such establishments, subsequently organized in the U. S. and England, came to be known as "Children's Houses...
When the Queen Mother Margherita saw fit to favor the enterprise, influential Italians poured gold and good advice upon the Casa del Bambini. It was here, after 13 years of germination, that the Montessori Plan first came to full fruition. The results of Dottoressa's clinical experience with dull children were to be objectively applied to normal ones...
History. Three principal Roman schools where the Montessori plan is in effect are the Via Trionfale school, the Via Fuà Fusinata school Casa del Bambini, the convent school in the Via Giusti. In none of these institutions has Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...
...used to play the organ and knew how you can force air through a thing and get sounds. . . . There I got my idea. It took lots of practice to learn to talk again. The flesh had to be hardened and trained." Regally gossipy was Florestan Aguilar, Viscount of Casa Aguilar, of Madrid, in Chicago to be made an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a specialist in oral surgery and therefore frequently needed by King Alfonso XIII's family. His precious observations of the King he shared with his U. S. confreres. King Alfonso...