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...Prematures. RLF has mushroomed from an almost unknown disease ten years ago to a major cause of blindness in children up to kindergarten age. Every year the estimate of infants who will lose their sight because of RLF has to be raised; it now stands at 650 annually in the U.S., and the numbers are increasing in British Commonwealth countries and in Europe. Some of the increase was to be expected because RLF strikes almost exclusively among premature babies (mainly those weighing 4 Ibs. and under), and the number of these who now survive, thanks to more and better incubators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Battle in the Dark | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...optimist that ever lived." And in his stoic dedication to his vocation, he certainly acted as though he was. When an early critic accused him of seeing the world as a "prison house," he retorted: "The world is not a 'prison house' but a kind of spiritual kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell God with the wrong blocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Poet | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Ready for the opening of school next month, Chicago department stores are featuring: for kindergarten, coonskin caps; for finger-painting class, dusters and smocks; for boys of seven and up, a ten-way suit with jacket & pants to match, extra pants of another color, a vest that is a solid color on one side and plaid on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...time her pupils have finished kindergarten, Mrs. Buckley expects them to know how to concentrate and to be accustomed to work. By the end of the first grade, she expects them to read, with ease, to have begun spelling, writing and arithmetic. Her techniques are as old-fashioned as her principles. Her teachers are not afraid of drilling their charges, or of having them memorize reams of poetry, or of making them listen quietly to a symphony or concerto. As Mrs. Buckley sees it, children like to learn-and they like to learn thoroughly. "It seems a shame," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: CounteR-R-Revolution | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

From the start it seemed that everyone who owned a dog wanted the animal to attend Mr. Turnquist's school. To satisfy the demand, he had to open two schools. One took care of the day students, while the other handled boarders. Now he takes pups in kindergarten and carries them on through a college course. For those who cannot attend day or boarding school, there are night classes. He has even started a Dog School Bus--the only one of its kind in the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 2/24/1951 | See Source »

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