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Neat, "platinum-blond" Principal Lester Dix, who produces more than 100 tons of fancy tomatoes each year on his farm at Princess Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Guinea Pigs' Verdict | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Carter '41, Paul C. Clough '40, Alexander S. Elder '38, Willard P. Fuller, Jr. '40, Martin S. D. Gill '41, Robert E. Lewis Sp., William R. Murphy, 3rd '41, John S. Newberry, Jr. '41, Melvin Pollard '41, Bernard D. Shea '41, Louis LeF. Sutro '38, Wheeler Smith '41, Lester H. Watson, '40, John C. Wells '40, Stephen Winship '41, Herbert E. Wright, Jr. '39, and Charles B. Woodman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinosaur Track Brought Home By Geologists During Field Trip | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Henry D. & Jonathan M. Parmenler:--to Fred Benyamin '41, of Columbia, South Carolina; Maurice S. Cohen '41, of Winthrop. Sanford L. Gray '41, Cleveland, Lester J. Bonig '41, of New York; Albert C. Howell '41, of Sandy Hook, New Jersey; George Minkin '41, of New Bedford; Henry D. Oyen '41, of New York; and Edward L. Rogers '41, of Suffield, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 28 STUDENTS AWARDED HALF - YEAR STIPENDS | 4/12/1938 | See Source »

...York, police arrested one Lester David O'Dell for writing a series of threatening letters to the President so persuasively phrased as to get past the secretariat which usually weeds such items out of the Presidential mail bag. In court, Magistrate Irving Ben Cooper recognized Correspondent O'Dell as a crank who had written similar letters to Mayor LaGuardia two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

From the Winnipeg training school Patrickmen now move, in an orderly progression, to the New York Rovers (Ranger-supervised amateurs), the minor-league Philadelphia Ramblers (for which Lester Patrick's son, Murray, now plays) and finally to the top-notch Rangers. Among the young players recently elevated to the Rangers is another son, Lynn Patrick, 25- who is so good that Manager Connie Smythe of the Maple Leafs recently offered Father Patrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Win, Place or Show | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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