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Coming back to school one afternoon, a young Manhattan teacher named Frank Hackett nearly stumbled over a teenager, dead drunk in the doorway. Then & there Hackett determined to start a school of his own out in the country-far enough from the city's temptations, and near enough to what he considered its treasures. Last week, as his Riverdale Country School turned 40, 69-year-old Headmaster Hackett was busy raising $5.000,000 for a new "world school" right next door...
...Hackett will build the new school on a wooded Riverdale plateau overlooking New York's Hudson River. He plans to have 600 teen-age students: 200 from New York City, 200 from the rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...
Scoring--First period: Beebe (Harding W.), 18:12. Second period: Greeley, S. (McKean), 7:59; Cutter (Arnold), 9:03; Hackett, 10:23; Ayres (Key), 12:44; Loring (Beebe), 17:40. Third period: Key (Feloney), 1:10; Harding, W. (Loring, Beebe), 1:28; Ayres (Moseley), 3:05; Sears (Greeley), 14:07. Overtime: Mechem (Paine) 3:59; Beebe, 5:39; Sears...
After the first Wallace issue the book section, famed in the days of Francis Hackett and Edmund Wilson, plans to review books quickly and earnestly for the busy, peppy progressive who will have much to think and talk about. Dyed-in-the-old New Republic liberals would miss the accustomed archaic intellectuality...
...Class of 1941: Francis Harold George, John Joseph Hackett...