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Beside the President of the U.S., in his green-carpeted White House office one morning last week, stood a small boy leaning easily on aluminum crutches. Billy Jennings, 6, of Trumbull, Conn., the 1955 "Easter Seal Child" of the National Society for Crippled Children & Adults, had come to deliver to the White House the first block of seals. "You're doing all right there, feller," said the President, as he shook Billy's hand. Then he accepted the corsage the boy was to give to Mrs. Eisenhower, and explained why he had come instead: "She'd like...
...What about Christ? I don't think that it would be desirable for children to grow up in ignorance of the New Testament. We don't want a generation who don't know what Christmas and Easter mean, who have never heard of the star of Bethlehem or the angel at the door of the tomb ... All I urge is that [the child] should hear them treated frankly as legends . . . There was a real Trojan War and Hector and Achilles may well have been real people, but we don't now believe Achilles...
Commenting on Yale's now three-week Easter vacation which is designed to improve low student morale during the winter months, Leighton disparaged the effect of schedule changes on student psychology. "The New Haven authorities haven't yet found a way to eliminate winter, have they?," he asked...
...Easter vacation will last a full weeks, instead of the present eight or ten days...
...chief reason for extending the Easter recess, Yale authorities explained, is the low student morale during the spring term. It is hoped that the longer vacation will break up the term more effectively and reduce the high number of students who usually enter the infirmary during the winter months...