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Freshmen wishing to speak French and practice in conversation what they learn in the classroom will be given the opportunity when the French table at the Union is organized this week. This group will meet on Mondays and Wednesday for supper at 6.15 o'clock and will be required to use only the French language during the meal. As far as possible, waiters and waitresses serving the students will be French-speaking, other students of the language or persons of French Canadian birth...
...Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department of Justice. One would undertake to familiarize new district attorneys, most of whom have never seen the inside of a grand jury room, with a working knowledge of detection and prosecution...
When pedagogs are at peace the annual convention of the National Education Association often turns into a good-natured set-to between classroom teachers and their "superiors," principals and superintendents. But currently pedagogs are deeply troubled. Last year's N. E. A. convention dropped the stock squabble to unite on one proposition: the Federal Government should subsidize needy schools. Last week that issue was still near the top of the 12,000 teacherish minds at Denver. Keynoted Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers College, Columbia...
Excited by the newborn alliance between classroom teachers and liberal professors, hotheads tried twice to wrest control of NEA's $800,000 permanent fund from NEA's tight-fisted Trustees, vest it in the Assembly of Delegates. "It's a matter of fair play," New York's small, grey-haired, pink-dressed Johanna Lindlof shrilled into a microphone. The Assembly, unimpressed, twice voted to keep its hands out of its own pocket. Mourned Johanna Lindlof: "The classroom teachers are just puppets and the double-crossing superintendents pull the strings...
Cooling off, the "insurgents" returned to the issue of Academic Freedom, framed a careful resolution. They proposed that NEA set up a committee of five-three of them classroom teachers. The committee would investigate dismissals of capable teachers, might even go to court to aid them; would fight such legislation as teachers' oath bills;* would cooperate with the Progressive Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers (A. F. of L. affiliate), the Civil Liberties Union, other "reputable" liberal organizations. On the last day of the convention the insurgents got their resolution on the floor. The Assembly passed it, thus...