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What was a jury-rigged home for Pop is school to over 100 youngsters under five years who comprise the two sessions of the University nursery at the corner of Kirkland St. and Kirkland Rd. This week Director Miss Winfred Lydon of Belmont marks her first year of operations in the pair of linked quonset huts which from an appropriate "H" under the University aegis...
Cynthia (MGM) is a timid smalltown girl (Elizabeth Taylor) in distress. Born delicate, she is kept sickly by her own unhappiness, her frustrated, overanxious parents (George Murphy, Mary Astor) and her pompous doctor-uncle (Gene Lockhart), who bullies the whole family. Music (S. Z. Sakall) and Young Love (James Lydon) arouse in Cynthia a desire to live-and to live like other girls...
...Miss Lydon's parent program consists of continual conferences with the mothers "and especially with fathers who need to catch up on the latest child-raising techniques," she comments. There are occasional lectures, such as the one to be given on January 20 by Cheney Jones, leader of the Home for Little Wanderers in Philadelphia...
...nursery. The two-year-olds, the three-year-olds, and the four-year-olds each have their own play-room, complete with blocks, rockers, see-saws, and other bits of infant paraphenalia. There is even an isolation group for "sick or over-stimulated children," according to Miss Lydon who adds that the four-year-olds are "the wild crowd...
...Miss Lydon finds that the children do not offer any exceptional problems. One obstreperous youngster, however, arrived with his father and then decided that he'd rather go with "the old man" to Law School. Father convinced son that it was more fun at the nursery. Other University children have insisted on following their fathers' example of bringing books to school. Reading however, is not a part of the nursery's curriculum...