Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill School at Pottstown, Pa., are 425 boys. Presumably each wants to go to college. And the parents of each have, presumably, planned a college career for their offspring. For The Hill, great Eastern preparatory school, sends annual quotas of competently trained students to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Williams...
...what if the young new Headmaster of The Hill, James I. Wendell (TIME, Sept. 24) should say to a parent: "Our records seem to indicate that your son should not go to college. We can probably train him to pass his college board examinations. But we know from experience that the chances of his entering and staying in college are slim. We will liberalize his courses at The Hill. But we advise against his going to college...
...blank forms to be filled in with name, address, name of parents, etc., etc. But at The Hill new questions are asked, a new sort of chart is being kept. Searching and revealing, it justifies Headmaster Wendell's advice to the parents of the twelve who will not go to college...
Long acknowledged has been the fact that the mere passing of examinations is not a trustworthy passport to college. At college there must be adaptation to new environment. The Hill is a strict school. Students must attend classes, chapel; lights must go out at given times. At most colleges students may cut classes, chapels, and lights may burn indefinitely. Argues The Hill: If a boy's record, ability and achievement indicate that he is better fitted for some activity other than college life, it is our duty to guide him away from college, and into the environment where he will...
...German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...