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...school's classes are conducted in French, and there are basic French courses for children who still have trouble with the language. In an ordinary week a twelve-year-old American boy works for 25 hours on general subjects, e.g., arithmetic, French grammar, geography, history, spelling, elementary science. For another six hours a week, the wife of an American major teaches him English grammar, spelling, American geography and history. Other national groups study the geography, history and grammar of their own countries...
...drama from its subject, the picture poses a rather odd and artificial triangle: Dizzy loves both his wife (Joanne Dru) and baseball. More authentic but with no higher cinematic batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive as Dizzy...
...scaring them out of their wits. But as the center keeps on growing, some parents may begin to wonder what happened to all the old favorites. Among the old favorites condemned last week: Kipling's Wee Willie Winkle ("containing elements of white superiority"), and Five Little Peppers ("The grammar is atrocious...
Though a difficult course. Slavic Languages can be one of the most rewarding. A student who has command of a language besides a fundamental knowledge of English grammar will find Russian a challenging but not impossible language. A year of intensive Russian is required in the department...
...exists nowhere in the world outside of the United States," President Conant makes no attempt to explain why he picks ages fifteen to seventeen. If he believes that the public school should influence the developing minds of future citizens, it would seem that the pupils' earlier years, probably in grammar school, would be more conducive to the class understanding President Conant desires...