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...hookey-playing professor has forced the Department of Geology to cancel the one course he was scheduled to give this term...
...Summerhill is Britain's most progressive school. At his school ("That dreadful School," he likes to call it), there is no discipline, except for such rules as the children lay down in their weekly meetings. The children are permitted to swear, steal, smash things up, masturbate, lie, play hookey or do anything else that, in Schoolmaster Neill's judgment, will rid them of inhibitions. At Summerhill, "inhibitions" are a prime preoccupation. Discipline, Neill believes, is "a substitute for a knowledge of children...
School of Experience. In Los Angeles, truant officers checking Santa Anita race track found no truant schoolchildren, but flushed bigger game: a hookey-playing Pasadena principal...
Frozen out of their classrooms by the coal strike, Denver's 63,110 boys & girls stayed home last week, but comparatively few played hookey. School was coming over the radio; they could turn their teachers on and, if Mother wasn't around...
...Britain, miners returning from the war were refusing to go back to the mines. Men already there were too old (average age: over 50) and too hungry for efficient production. They worked while solid rations lasted; on Thursdays and Fridays, when there was very little to eat, they played hookey. In the last quarter of 1945, 10% of them were persistent absentees. That was equivalent to a loss of 20 million tons of coal a year; and in a world starving for coal 20 million tons would go a long way towards achieving the huge expansion of export trade (goal...