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Born. To Emily Hahn ("Micky") Boxer, 43, best-selling authoress (The Soong Sisters, China To Me), and Major Charles Boxer, 44, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941, now a professor of Portuguese literature at King's College, University of London: their second child, a girl (their first, Carola, according to Author Hahn, was born illegitimately in 1941); in Manhattan. Name: Amanda. Weight...
Probe Yourself. At Gordonstoun last week, on the bleakly beautiful Morayshire coast of Scotland, 300 youngsters were busy manning coastguard lookouts, spotting forest fires, working at the village smithy, and striving mightily to win badges for moral and physical fitness. Headmaster Hahn is sure that his schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn...
...Gordonstoun and at Salem, the day Degins with a cold shower and five minutes of Christian "prelude"; it ends with five minutes of silent thought. Says Hahn: No intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...
...Hahn's Seven Laws for education: i) give he children opportunities for selfdiscovery; ) make them meet with triumph and defeat; ) give them the opportunity of self-effacement n a common cause; 4) provide periods of si-snce; 5) train the imagination; 6) make games mportant but not predominant; 7) free the ons of the wealthy and powerful from the ener-ating sense of privilege...