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Both festivities are parts of the work the quonset-housed nursery on Kirkland Place is doing to promote religious tolerance among the 90 pre-kindergarten children who come daily to play there. Directed by white-haired Miss Winnifred Lydon, the year-old school offers the youngsters of both veteran and non veteran students four daily hours of play for only $5 a month...
Lack of a proper system of child guidance is Morris' chief bone of contention' with the present system. His platform calls for a complete achievement record to be kept on each individual pupil, so that a precocious kindergarten block builder would possibly be steered into the construction trades as a high school youth, if his talent continued to express itself...
...Kindergarten and first-grade enrollments were bulging with the first war babies to reach school age. Babies who passed their infancy in these hectic times, warned an Ohio psychologist, are apt to be jittery about such a violent novelty as school. Dr. Clare W. Graves of Western Reserve University advised parents to watch for such signs of nervous tension as mouth-tugging and hair-pulling. After a couple of weeks in school, kindergartners are apt to go on talking jags; the only thing for parents to do then, said Dr. Graves, is to grit their teeth and listen sympathetically...
...General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said the agent...
...open his new school a year ago. It is equipped with such luxuries as an oil furnace, a cafeteria and a swimming pool. Tuition: $25 to $35 a month. Classes and subjects are much the same as in any U.S. school, except that French becomes as important as English: kindergarten children romp around singing French songs, kids in the lower grades give French plays. "Our real value," says De Rosay, "is to meet the needs of children going to the States for higher education. The plus value is that we like to return them less provincial. . . . The U.S. may have...