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...yard run -- Colburn (H) 1:51.6, Lovatt (O) 1:52.4, Taylor (O) 1:53.7, Burns...
Last week the Progressive Education Association distributed to the nation's schools an ambitious program to save democracy. Its author was P. E. A.'s brash young Executive Secretary Frederick Lovatt Redefer (TIME, Oct. 31, 1938). He proposed as the schools' No. 1 job a crusade to make the nation's children appreciate their land by seeing it firsthand. His plan: let pupils get part of their education in work camps (like CCC) instead of classrooms, let them visit and labor in fields and factories. Said Mr. Redefer...
...this the Progressive Education Association is chiefly to be thanked or blamed. Twenty years old this fall, P. E. A. numbers only 10,500 of the nation's 1,000,000 educators, but its cocky. 33-year-old executive secretary, Frederick Lovatt Redefer, was able to boast truthfully last week: "We are no longer a rebel group." Its leading critic, white-thatched Professor William Chandler Bagley of Columbia's Teachers College, concedes that this little group today wields a dominant influence in U. S. education...
...They eyed the clock nervously but President Jerome Lewine cut short the fanfare at 10 a. m. sharp, clanged the gong. A mighty roar went up from the silver post. To Broker Edwin Troetchell went the honor of first sale: 25,000 oz. of silver to Broker Clarence Lovatt at 37.75? an ounce...