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Progressive Education. In Dartford, England, officials at an office-equipment exhibit discovered why the show was drawing so many small fry: they were doing their homework on the adding machines...
...every evening David Lilienthal leaves his office, checks out at the basement desk and steps into his black sedan, a manila envelope of homework under his arm. Around the Public Health Service building the floodlights flick on. Along the terraces, the armed sentries take up their patrol...
...goes on: "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were at school, I used to have to do all her homework for her." All quite impossible. "I used to have to do" puts my teeth on edge. Neither "dumb" nor "homework" are in my vocabulary. Gertrude was a brighter pupil than I was, and more often "honorably promoted," that is, without the obligation of final examinations. We did no homework and the word was not in use with us. We studied our lessons in school study hours. If Author Putnam had known better the ways...
...drawing, dancing and sewing were required and so was excellence at swimming, riding and tennis. Father didn't ask the impossible, but he expected all of his children to be in the first ten in their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain her standing by memorizing what went on in class. Father did not permit his womenfolk to wear corsets, because he held that the body, as well as the mind, should remain uncramped...
...rangy Frederic B. Rentschler, chairman of United Aircraft. Modest Fred Rentschler, who did not want to steal any glory from Chance Vought's general manager, Rex Beisel, was on his farm, "Renbrook," in West Hartford. As usual, he had taken home a batch of work. Rentschler's homework has paid United some handsome dividends...