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...week, alert young fourth, fifth and sixth graders perched on the edges of their chairs and strained for the answers to such posers. Each studio was jammed with soprano cheering sections from competing schools. Teachers, who had coached their hopefuls for competition, watched nervously. The program was Quizdown, an interschool contest conducted on old-fashioned spelling-bee lines...
...Association for Childhood Education, which represents about 39,000 "progressive" educators, called Helen Bannerman's 46-year-old child's classic "an undesirable book. . . . These drawings create a distorted and ugly picture that becomes fixed in the white child's imagination." In Manhattan the Interschool Conference of Youthbuilder Clubs joined the Sambo-hunt because it "disseminates racial and religious prejudices...
...those who plan to take a full course of high school and college work. All the teachers must be northerners (to show Alabamans that damyankees are little different from themselves). There will be no formal grades or rating by classes, no foreign language instruction, no graduation exercises, no interschool games, no secret societies, no religious instruction, no building for any Godly purpose...
Several interscholastic events are scheduled, in addition to interclass and interschool relays of Columbia University. The open events are as follows: 60-yard dash, handicap; 600-yard dash, handicap; one-mile run, handicap; high jump, handicap, limit of 6 inches; putting 16-pound shot, handicap, limit of 6 feet; pole-vault, handicap, limit of 10 inches. Two Amateur Athletic Union championship races, a 60-yard dash and two-mile run, are also scheduled...