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...real hope, to educate them and to fit them for useful, decent, even happy lives. It is not a simple or idyllic process: the classroom struggle for the minds and hearts of New York's young is as complex, as baffling and painful as the struggle for gain and survival which goes on in the perpendicular jungles of masonry outside...
There are few cities in the world where a handicapped child can receive such thorough and expert training, and few where a bright, industrious and resolute student can gain such a fine technical or scientific background. The New York public schools which produced such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer have also sent a stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year...
...H.A.A. is moving to 60 Boylston St.-- which housed the ROTC units until this year--to gain a "more strategic location," according to Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles...
...John Dewey's well-worn "learning by doing" slogan has come to mean little more than that "children move around more and read less." The modern educationalists have apparently forgotten that "if the child is to gain an understanding of the history of Western civilization, the 'doing' involved must include a great deal of reading, talking, listening, looking at pictures, and just plain thinking. Perhaps he can learn a little by building a mud replica of a medieval castle on a sand table, but it is very doubtful if the time is as profitably spent...
Nevertheless, the varsity, with halfback Bob Cowles making several fine stops, held the jayvee ground attack to virtually no gain...