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...additional six weeks of camp, the cadet would learn the manual of arms, foot drill, map reading, command experience, and similar subjects...
...decided to start a school of their own, they picked Smith to be its first headmaster. By that time, he had graduated from Harvard, taught at both Hill and Parker and had a pretty good idea of what sort of school he wanted. He had no use for sterile drill or mathematical marking, but he also refused to follow the free-for-all philosophy of some progressives. In matters of discipline, he was sure of one thing: "A child never respects a person" he can walk over...
...public lecture in Durham, N.C., Novelist Aldous Huxley took a look at his own topflight British education (Eton and Oxford), and wondered how he stood. It could, said he, "do nothing better for my body than Swedish drill and compulsory football, nothing better for my character than prizes, punishments, sermons and pep talks, and nothing better for my soul than hymns before bedtime and after breakfast...
...quickest ways to make a fortune is to invent a new gadget or machine. Unlike most Americans, who never get beyond the daydreaming stage, Goldschmidt made his daydream come true. His invention: a home power tool that could be used as a lathe, vertical and horizontal drill, sander, saw-and do almost anything else needed for woodworking. Last week Goldschmidt's streamlined new model of the "Shop-smith," the do-it-yourself boom's most versatile power tool, went on display at a do-it-yourself exhibition in Manhattan...
Copps got his first full-time job at the age of 16 in the Mclntyre gold mine in Timmins, Ont. It was during the Depression; the price of gold had jumped from $20.67 to $35 an ounce, and he earned $45 a week as a drill bit sharpener. Three years later, he met a man by the name of Roy Thomson (TIME, Sept. 14, 1953), who had bought and turned the local weekly into a daily called the Timmins Press. Copps got a cub reporter's job at $8 a week. In four years he was news editor...