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Among the other Crimson thinclads competing today are Bailee Reed in the dash. Dewey Hickman in the hurdles and Bob Clayton...
Yale, with a 2-3-1 mark for the season, lost last Saturday to Cornell, 78-40. The Eli's strongman is Rich MacDonald, who is expected to give Harvard's Dewey Hickman a tough fight in the hurdles...
Harvard will be looking for victories in the dash, with Dewey Hickman, the pole vault with sophomore Jim Kleiger, and the broad-jump with Leon Sharpe...
...Dewey's Heirs. A stocky, forceful divorcee who looks a bit like a traditional schoolmarm, Mrs. Weber, 54, is emerging as one of the nation's most thoughtful advocates of making informal education intellectually demanding. By now she has trained some 100 teachers who are using informal techniques with about 2,700 kindergarten-through-fourth-graders in New York City public schools; she also has a Ford Foundation grant to train ten consultants to spread her methods. She has put her studies of similar British experiments into an expert new book, The English Infant School and Informal Education...
Informal education, which still seems radical to regulation-loving school administrators, derives from insights into learning that go back to Montessori and Dewey, and have since been confirmed by psychologists like Jean Piaget. For older children as well as preschoolers, says Mrs. Weber, "the most intense form of learning is the child's learning through play and the experiences he seeks out for himself...