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...doubled the number of library card holders. He had eight reading groups going, plowing through everything from Plato to the Bill of Rights. But he is proudest of the schoolkids he has turned into book lovers-the little Negro girl who read 150 books in one summer; the seventh-grader who produced a letter from his teacher saying he was smart enough to read adult books and then asked for a volume of Toynbee; the 8,000 kids enrolled in his summer reading program. Says Jacobs: "I think a child who reads, who creates new interests, will never be delinquent...
After more than five hours, only two contestants were left-14-year-olds Darrell Flavelle and Jean Chappelear. Jean, a blonde eighth-grader in the Ravenna (Ohio) Township School, had been boning up for weeks. She had been taking word lists on her baby-sitting jobs-and even...
...Administrator Paul G. Hoffman got a mash note from a first-grader back in South Bend (where his Studebaker plant stands). "My daddy is a preacher," said the letter, "and he said if we had more men like you he would not have to preach so hard. I love...
...value of finals. This value is derived through handing the bluebook back to the student with comments to indicate faults that may be avoided in the future. It has been common practice to return hour exams so that the student can take whatever complaints he may have to the grader for discussion. No such provision has been maintained on January and May finals, however. If sufficiently interested, the student can enclose a posteard on which his grade is returned. In all but a few cases this is as close as he gets to his corrected manuscript...
Felix reported a run on picture postcards. "Some of the boys will stop at nothing to impress the grader," he was quoted as saying. "There's one in particular--shows a statue of some Indian appealing to the Great Spirit--selling like hot--cakes...