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This collecting of juvenilia could cause a revolution in the arts. We can imagine a concert of those pieces composed by Mozart before he reached the age of three--not his best, of course, only those not previously heard. Or a hanging of sketches done by Pieasse while attending grammar school in Spain. Since some of the pieces in this anthology were written by men who later became well known in fields quite removed from the world of letters (a selection by Theodore Roosevelt concerns various football teams of 1879), it may be possible to uncover some clay figurines sculptured...
...tests to find out whether the protesters knew what they were talking about. Last week the schoolmen admitted that, to a certain extent, the protesters did: in math problems the pupils scored three points below the national average, were little better in spelling; almost all were weak in grammar. Superintendent Kenneth Oberholtzer (TIME, Feb. 20) decided standards needed tightening...
High school and grammar students in Massachusetts pay student commuting fares, but college and university students have always paid the full tariff...
After only one semester, pupils in the Washington Grammar School of Riverdale, Ill. had become sold on their new teacher, Perry J. Rockwell. Teacher Rockwell, 26, had never taught much before, but he made lessons fun. He organized his classes into "baseball teams," gave "bases" and "home runs" for questions they got right. He took special pains with the shy ones, built up the confidence of the undersized...
...newest Pinocchio (Pinoculus this time) sold 6,000 copies in a month, and schoolmasters all over Italy were ordering more. Even the Vatican's top classicist, Monsignor Antonio Bacci, was plugging the book as something that Latin teachers have always neededan easy bridge between grammar and the classics. "Here," said Monsignor Bacci, "at last is something...