Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more exclusive than polo, class J-yacht racing or court tennis, sportsmen who want to indulge in Vogelschiessen must present a pedigree. Only descendants of these old Saxon craftsmen may shoot. With steel crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock...
...year tuition. Today their progressive school of 300 students, "the school with the pink rooms and green blackboards," is one of the most famed in the U. S. Last week it was described in an extraordinary little book collectively written by the 55 children in University School's class of '38, the first to graduate...
...seventh-graders, the class decided to make its quarters in its new building "like a real home." It ordered furniture, designed andirons and screens, made lists of books for the library, held a housewarming, finally printed, laboriously, by hand, a book, Our Home. The authors of Were We Guinea Pigs? report that all students in University School are required to study science, social science, English, mathematics and physical education. Even Latin is offered. But their school differs from traditional ones because the students plan their own studies...
...holes. Not only did Dr. Fawcett's pupils rate high er than other high-school youngsters in tests on reasoning ability, but they got the best marks in the State in plane geometry. The authors proudly display in their book the slogan over the doorway to this class : PRIZE THE DOUBT LOW KINDS EXIST WITHOUT. Less enthusiastic was one parent, who complained: "[My daughter] has become too cynical and is given to a great amount of quibbling...
Result of such mid-Victorian restrictions and the finishing schools' training, says Miss Ogden, is that their graduates: 1) become too much interested in men, 2) overemphasize their own importance, 3) become class-conscious, 4) know very little about the world. Farmington's most famed alumna is Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow...