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...actual knowledge of home schooling was rather limited, mainly to those geeky kids who year after year win the national spelling bee with words I can't even pronounce. To find out more I spent last weekend at a home schooling exhibition at a Denver Holiday Inn, a 5000-strong confab of parents, children and education experts who got together to purchase curriculum, take seminars and talk shop. My first lesson: these people rise with the sun. When I arrived at 7:30 am on Saturday morning, a swarm of parents had already staked out the still-shuttered exhibition hall...
GROVE PARK INN ASHEVILLE...
...everything in the inn's past is worthy of restoration. The original guests, who often stayed for months, had to book long in advance, present letters of reference, leave young children behind, make no noise and run no water in the room after 10:30 p.m. Those who laughed too loudly in public rooms were presented with a printed card requesting that they modify their behavior. Today's guests can bathe whenever they want and laugh to their heart's content. They can book at the last minute, stay for just a day or two and find many programs designed...
...They protested even more strongly when a University committee decided to turn a recently acquired Massachusetts Avenue gas station into the Inn at Harvard during Spence’s deanship. According to Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes, Bok’s central administration had already decided to use the space for a “commercial enterprise” instead of using it to extend FAS’ library capacity...
...committee met as a whole every other weekend, shuttling back and forth between places like Harper’s law firm and Houghton’s Corning offices in the Trump Towers in New York, and locations in Cambridge, usually Loeb House or the Inn at Harvard...