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Four score and ten years ago, a gunman jumped onto the stage at Ford's Theater in Washington, and fled, to be hunted down as an assassin. Last week in the African nation founded by American freedmen, one Paul Dunbar cast himself in the role of John Wilkes Booth; he was not playacting...
Liberia's diplomatic set had gathered at the Executive Mansion to celebrate President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening...
...flies in the face of all logic and common sense." How accurate is Flesch's gloomy picture? Last week, in the Chicago Sun-Times, a onetime assistant professor at Western Reserve who is now a reporter spoke up for the educators. Flesch's book, says Ruth Dunbar, "is a caricature, not a portrait . . . Johnny does learn to read in today's schools." It is true, says Reporter Dunbar, that most schools have in the first grade abandoned the old phonic (i.e., letter by letter and syllable by syllable) method of teaching a child to read in favor...
Though Flesch cites statistics to prove that children taught by phonics read better than those taught by the word method. Reporter Dunbar has her own sets of figures to prove the contrary. But statistics aside, her major charge against Flesch is that he has grossly overstated his case. If she does not succeed in demolishing Flesch entirely, she does succeed in placing the battle in perspective. "Flesch's hue and cry about no phonics in the schools," says she, "is directed at a straw...
...proposal for a more stringent honor system was decisively rejected by Business School students in a special vote taken last week, Dunbar Abston, chairman of the Educational Committee of the Business School Student's Association, announced Friday...