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...current Saturday Review, Claude Fuess, onetime headmaster of Andover, gives his own thumbnail history of education during the last 50 years. Main trends: "Liberation of the Curriculum; the Mania for Military Preparation; the Formations of Small Sections and of Fast and Slow Divisions; the Rediscovery of Interest as a Motive; the Apotheosis of the I.Q. ; the Glorification of the Aptitude Test; the Popular Demand for Individual Attention; the Rise and Decline of Progressive Education; the Cumulative Menace of the Movies, Radio and Television; the Falling off in Voluntary Reading; the Multiplication of Records; and finally, the Training for Citizenship...
...Recalling his days as headmaster of Andover in the September Atlantic Monthly, Claude M. Fuess (rhymes with peas) had some tales to tell of visiting clergymen and their sermons: "The patience of a schoolboy congregation is often sorely tried. One winter three successive clergymen took as their theme the parable of the Prodigal Son. Again, three visiting clergymen in a row ended their sermons with a stereotyped quotation from Sir Henry Newbolt, beginning, 'There's a breathless hush in the close tonight,' and concluding dramatically, 'Play up! play up! and play the game...
...half century some 2,000,000 would-be collegians have suffered their way through the board's tests. By last week, when the College Entrance Examination Board celebrated its 50th anniversary and published its official history (The College Board: Its First Fifty^ Years, by Claude M. Fuess, Columbia University Press; $2.75), it had achieved an influence in U.S. education far greater than most Americans outside the teaching profession realized...
...anniversary time, Frank Boyden had almost 500 boys and a campus that spread over the heart of old Deerfield. Most of his old New England colleagues (Horace Taft of Taft, Perry of Exeter, Claude Fuess of Andover, Endicott Peabody of Grotonj are dead or retired. Frank Boyden is the last of a generation of great headmasters-a man who cannot show a visitor to Deerfield an empty classroom without shaking his head. "You should see it full of boys," he says. "It's not right without boys...
...Fuess, Headmaster of Andover, declared that "teaching offers more satisfaction than any other job on earth." He added that the profession requires more personality than training, since "the best teacher is the man who luakes a definite impact on those he instructs...