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...While the focus of the study is the problem of Harvard College, the Committee never lost sight of the fact that college education at Harvard is an integral part of college education in the United States, and this in turn is an integral part of American education from the kindergarten to the Ph.D. and the professional colleges. It would have been impossible to cover this vast field comprehensively. But the evidence of the text shows that its authors possessed collectively so wide a range of knowledge that they have been able to dip into the vast reservoir of educational experience...
What the OPA-WPB team now proposes to do is so kindergarten-simple in outline that consumers might well ask why it was not done long ago. WPB will tighten its control over the supply of cloth to converters and clothing manufacturers (TIME, Dec. 4). Cloth will be released only for the types of clothing WPB wants produced, and within certain price ranges. Meanwhile, OPA will roll back prices to 1943 levels. Thus WPB can force garment manufacturers to switch their output back to inexpensive underwear, shirts, house dresses and other scarce articles...
...Postwar Kindergarten. One yo-yo had been given the Latins: the State Department's current series of "Informal Talks" about postwar organization. At the first two, the Latin diplomats sat like school children (they claimed), while Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius told them about the postwar world. At the third "Talk" last week, Uruguay and Venezuela protested against the postwar plan sketched out at Dumbarton Oaks. Other protests were expected...
...company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have ugly moments with their parents and at a drinking joint, and in an attempt at larceny, both are redeemed through a mellow juvenile-court judge and through kinfolk who, on a modest scale, set up every delinquency-preventive, from a kindergarten to machinist's training...
...four hours a day, 160 lessons a year, parents can put children through eight elementary grades in six years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey...