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Following Sherrill's presentation, Griswold made the formal conferral of the degree, investing Pusey with the purple hood of the degree. The award was the first made by Yale in recent years outside of Commencement...
...Indiana textbook commissioner last week struck a blow for decency and free enterprise by demanding that children cease all reading of the Robin Hood legend in schools. It is high time someone exposed the story for what it really is: a cleverly-disguised piece of dialectic materialism written by a Red-tainted radical far ahead of his time...
...Indiana's textbook commissioner said, "There is a Communist directive in education now to stress the story of Robin Hood." Such a forthright cry deserves applause. America's youth must be saved from so insidious a menace...
First the youngsters learn that Hood is on their side; soon they strike up friendships among the other students. But when, thanks to specialized and often individualized teaching techniques, they begin to overcome their handicap, they must be taught not to withdraw into their own society. "I keep telling them that this is a hothouse setup," says Hood, "that it isn't quite normal. Every chance I get, I take them with me to the cleaner's, the market or a restaurant. Then, with the security of the school behind them, they begin to cope with the world...
...only a handful of such schools for brain-injured children. There should be hundreds, says Dr. Putnam. As a next step, he and Hood are laying plans for a $1,000,000 ranch school for more children whose parents do not know where to turn for help...