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...situation where propriety must control them. Colette unfortunately omitted any see-what-to-expect-of-secluded-girls'-schools moral, leaving just a story. While the characters are interesting only as general types in a unique plot Olivia'a story seems very real to one who has not first-hand experience...
...records at the City and Country School, a progressive school in Greenwich Village, seem strangely prophetic: at four, "one of the best block builders in the group; his dramatic play is very vivid"; at six, "outstanding for clear thinking and intelligent planning"; at eight, "a ready fund of first-hand knowledge." His mother taught him to read at five during a Connecticut winter away from school. He remembers his first book: The Little Fir Tree. By the time he was eight, his parents would find him with his light on at 11 p.m., reading anything that was handy. "Children should...
Since the CRIMSON first planned to do this supplement in February, editors have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the South to gather first-hand information for it. We have not attempted to give here a comprehensive picture of the situation; we rather have tried to spotlight certain local developments and specific problems of the highly complex question of Negro education...
...official level he went to visit certain universities in the Far East which the Harvard-Yenching Institute helps to support--altogether the Institute supports research and publications in about ten universities in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong--and on a more personal level he went to gain a first-hand familiarity with recent developments in the area...
...another northern tier to this sort of first-hand regional coverage, White on his latest trip signed on new stringers to report to TIME from Churchill, The Pas, Grande Prairie, Whitehorse, Prince George and Fort William. These bring the number of part-time correspondents (in addition to TIME'S three full-time bureaus in Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal) to an all-time high...