Word: landhavener
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...boys were the entire student body of Landhaven School in Camden, Me. Boys at Landhaven get their education on the scene, and on the run. Next afternoon their bus was parked at Lake Success, while they watched the U.N. Security Council in session...
Broadway to the Bowery. This week Landhaven's students wound up a month-long stay in New York. They had camped out in the gymnasium of a settlement house on Manhattan's lower East Side, and earned their keep by replastering the walls, painting, repairing chairs, and building a handicraft shop in the settlement house. They had toured the museums, the Bowery and Chinatown. They had also seen, among other plays, The Respectful Prostitute and A Streetcar Named Desire...
...Michael Millen is a slight, earnest 26-year-old. A Methodist preacher, he wears a clerical collar, partly because he considers himself a "high" Methodist, partly as a badge of authority which his boys respect. He inherited Landhaven's 60 acres in Maine from his father, a wealthy farmer and businessman in Coin, Iowa. Young Millen had planned a school built to his own specifications ever since his own unsatisfying prep-school days. After Harvard ('42), he got three other well-to-do Harvard-men so fired with his ideas that they agreed to take jobs as masters...
Money is neither an object nor an obstacle at Landhaven. Those who can afford it pay the full $1,650 a year. For others, Millen has not only written off the tuition altogether, but provided clothes, books and pocket money. But every Landhavener must pass a Stanford-Binet test with a "gifted" rating: the average I.Q. for the group entering this fall...
...Landhaven has no "forms" or class "years." Students graduate when progress tests convince the masters that they are ready for college. The boys get only six weeks' vacation each summer; the rest of the school year is broken into three terms, on the English model. Students and masters share the school's housekeeping chores...
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