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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...world's largest annual professional gatherings???15,000 public school superintendents and teachers, members and associates of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association?assembled last week in De- troit. With them they had ten gold-lettered, morocco-bound volumes containing more than 4,500 tribute-letters to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, written by enthusiastic U. S. school children. Though no prize had been offered, the idea, suggested by the N. E. A., inspired some 40.000 youngsters to send in essays, drawings, illuminated scrolls, a model of the Admiral's City of New York carved in laundry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale into Eleven | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

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