Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of a formal curriculum, Roslyn's schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...
...formal meeting, probably next month, the new men will be inducted...
With Spring scheduled to make its formal appearance Monday neither the gods of weather nor the University seems to be taking much cognizance of the event. Cold is predicted by the weather bureau. Reached last night, local authorities could not set a definite date for the reopening of the Yard Pump, Harvard's official recognition of the new season...
Crusty E. W. Scripps who laid the foundations of the present Scripps-Howard empire was an extraordinary personality. An awkward, sensitive farm boy, born in Illinois, he grew up to despise formal education. Famed for his feuds and his acquisitiveness, he bullied advertisers and politicians, founded or acquired 44 newspapers from coast to coast, drank a gallon of spirits a day until he ruined his health...
Higher Learning. Most newsworthy speech on the superintendent's formal program was made by Harvard's youthful President James Bryant Conant. Observing that the number of students in U. S. professional schools might well be reduced, President Conant challenged the view that students are better off if they stay in school and study for an overcrowded profession than if they leave school and become unemployed. Said he, "The existence of any large number of highly educated individuals whose ambitions have been frustrated is unhealthy for any nation...