Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth through eight years of elementary school and four years of high school. But in the last 20 years junior high schools and junior colleges have burgeoned. Today, the 8-4 plan, still the rule for most youngsters, is considered old-fashioned by many educators. The up-to-date child rides through his public schooling on a 6-3-3-2 or 6-4-4 model. In the 6-4-4 system (notable example: Pasadena Calif.) the pupil spends his childhood in a six-year elementary school, feels his adolescent oats in a four-year junior high, grows to manhood...
Recreation leaders know that unless a playground is within half a mile of the child's house, he will play in the streets. To U. S. children. WPA has brought thousands of new playgrounds in the last three years. Great Britain will try another way. Announced last week was the organization of the Five Million Club, chairmaned by Rugby School's headmaster P. H. B. Lyon. It urged school children and adults to become members at a shilling a year, promised that each sixpence would buy a square foot of playground. The club has already signed...
...important trends showed through Director Williams' report last week: NYA begins to think public works relief more important than academic relief; employers scouting schools and colleges have begun to ask for NYA students. But the big news of last week's birthday was that the child seemed virtually past danger from economic undernourishment or political...
...Washington, D. C., 82-year-old George Boarman became the father of his 26th child, by his third wife, 21. Oldster Boarman's first 25 children were by his first wife. He met the present Mrs. Boarman last year when he worked on her father's farm. Proud of his "crackerjack" record, he explained: "I stand in well with the Lord...
...politics of that time (as it also does with contemporary Naziism) and it survives today in the writings of such eccentrics as Duke University's William McDougall. Most social psychologists have rejected the ethos as a scientifically useless personification, like the patriotic personification of "Uncle Sam" or a child's idea of Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some skeptics began to deny the existence of collective behavior, to declare that it was simply the sum of individual behavior. Dr. Richard Tracy La Piere, associate professor...