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The result necessitates an elaborate system of quiet hours and proctoring. Theoretically, during quiet hours (which comprise practically the whole of every weekday except for short periods around lunch and dinner time), talking in the halls is forbidden and musical instruments cannot be played. The enforcement of these rules, however...
The boycott, of course, had nothing to do with schools. But if some of the principles of Montgomery could be applied to educational integration, slow but lasting progress is likely to result. And, indeed, slow progress is all that can be hoped for. This is not to say that the...
Though Deauville has been socially registered since Emperor Napoleon III learned the breast stroke there in mid-eigteenth century, it has remained France's most fashionable resort as a result of diligent handling by 42-year-old François André, France's biggest hotel operator. In...
Even in the winding-sheet prose of the Rev. Alban Butler, the saints' often wildly exciting lives and extravagant deaths provided the thriller reading for generations of 18th and 19th century Christians, who did not have the grotesqueries of horror comics and TV. A prodigiously diligent pillar of British...
Excruciatingly slow at his studies, Rex despaired of ever amounting to anything. Then he took part in a couple of school plays, and to his astonishment found himself applauded. His career was set, in a way that recalls H. L. Mencken's sour description of the sort of youth...