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...Champaign, Ill., unbeaten Ohio State corralled Illinois' All-America Candidate J. C. Caroline, turned loose their own scat back, Bobby Watkins, and made a bid for the Big Ten championship by outrunning the Illini, 40-7. At Madison, Wis., Alan ("the Horse") Ameche battered the Rice line for two touchdowns as Wisconsin won, 13-7. In Dallas, for all their fumbles, the Oklahoma Sooners beefed up their claim to collegiate football's top rank by beating Texas, 14-7. In the Ivy League, Harvard's Crimson outshaded the Big Red of Cornell in a surprising upset...
...years ago the Supreme Court tossed a judicial bomb into many a U.S. schoolroom when it decided that it was unconstitutional for James Terry McCollum and his classmates in Champaign, Ill. to be exposed to religious instruction on public-school property (TIME, March 22, 1948). But the individualists of Vermont would not let some Washington lawyers tell them how to educate their children; the state board of education issued a routine notice of the decision, and nobody paid much attention...
...Education article entitled "Oceans of Piffle" [Sept. 7] has a quotation [from Alert Lynd's Quackery in the Public Schools] credited to the principal of a Champaign, Ill. junior high school. Since I have been the only principal of a junior high school in Champaign for 19 years, the reference must be to me. The quotation is as follows: "We shall some day accept the thought that it is just as illogical to assume that every boy must be able to read as it is that each one must be able to perform on a violin, that...
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...heady statement came from a different vintage Champaign, was made by A. H. Lauchner, junior high principal in Urbana, Champaign County...