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Henry Ford's schools in Greenfield, with 244 pupils all told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian...
Dean Hudson's orchestra will play for the Lowell House Kindergarten Prom this Thursday with Frances Colwell as vocalist. Dancing will be from ten o'clock to three and a midnight supper will be served. Costume is preferred...
Working in a Berlin kindergarten last week was 19-year-old, red-haired Fräulein Lotte Lenze whose meagre financial circumstances were briefly, spectacularly enhanced by some of the cash from the Nobel Peace Prize won in 1936 by German Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky...
...severest critics, dynamic Dr. Abraham Flexner, then secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, got the Rockefeller General Education Board to start the Lincoln School, an experimental, "progressive" school. It was attached to Columbia University's Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such as sending its pupils to study the TVA at first hand (TIME, Feb. 21). Last week Lincoln School celebrated its 20th anniversary in an unorthodox way. It published...
Dean Hudson will hold forth at the Lowell House Spring Costume Ball on Thursday, May 19. W. H. Prosser '39, chairman of the committee has announced that a buffet dinner will feature the "Kindergarten Prom...