Word: kindergartens
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...puppets gliding through syncopated situations with all the smooth perfection that the Roche trade-mark guarantees. Herein the plot clots around a Palm Beach super-sheik with four yachts (named for the four winds), a pugilist-butler and a string of seductions that would put Casanova back in the kindergarten. Also present: a wronged War hero, a guileless moth, a seasoned misconductress. Who daggered the super-sheik...
Stanley R. Yarnall, master of the Germantown Friends' School (Philadelphia), which is co-educational from kindergarten through high school : "The control of the boy does not depend on the sex of the teacher. It depends on the character. . . . We have discovered that, up to the fifth-grade age, women are better teachers for boys than men. There is one exception to be noted here. When our boys reach the fourth grade, we put them under men instructors for athletics...
Stale patterns of the kindergarten executed in raw colors by pudgy little fingers that might better have been occupied in making mud-pies; humpty-dumpty farmyard animals with four toothpicks and a chunk of modeling clay; naive nursery etchings-graphs of the thought-rhythms of potentially delinquent minds-these, the charivari of most children's exhibitions were notably absent. Instead, one child, 6, a musician and a draughtsman who had already given a public concert, reproduced the impression made by the auditorium upon the mind of a performing pianist-vast, silent gulfs of listening space in which the black...
...square feet of floor space was utilized for exhibits in connection with the meeting. More than 200 organizations had exhibits of everything from plans for $1,000,000 schoolhouses to kindergarten toys...
...confronted with a public many times greater and more diverse and hidden from him as effectively as he was hidden from it, with industrial and financial problems of an altogether new order. There was no use pretending that his experience as Vice President had given him more than a kindergarten education for his new office and he needed a college degree at least...