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...current Bulletin, the council attacks various classroom distractions which, it claims, are justified by educationists "in the name of 'educating the whole child,' or of the Dewey-eyed notion that instead of preparing a child for society, a school should be a miniature, make-believe re flection of society." Among the questions it urges parents to ask themselves: ¶ "Are club meetings, play rehearsals, band rehearsals, 'pep' meetings, and other extracurricular activities scheduled during regular class periods or outside of hours?" ¶ "Are classrooms equipped with TV sets so the whole class may watch the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Is Your School a Clambake? | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...information of value. The authors do not claim to make of every reader a successful contributor to the Sat Eve Post on the Atlantic, but they do offer a good orderly compendium of facts that will save many "trials and enters" for the potential contribution to contemporary non flection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/26/1930 | See Source »

...clubs, rather than of "a first-class fighting man", his latest opus. THE POOR GENTLEMAN (Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1928, $2.50) is a pleasantly written adventure and mystery story. Mr. Hay tries to weave an element of political philosophy into the tale and manages to combine his propaganda with flection very agreeably. It is a story of love, bolsheviks, kidnappers, and whatnot, all culminating in a happy ending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/31/1928 | See Source »

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