Word: manns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Creelman had sprinkled the soldier's ashes on the grounds of his church at Weston, Ont., the Army's principal Protestant chaplain, Colonel J. Logan-Vencta, and Brigadier Churchill Mann showed up, asked...
Founded in 1887, the Horace Mann School became one of the nation's leading laboratories of schoolteaching. Its first, timidly daring explorations did much to lift U.S. schools out of a three-Rs rut. Its experiments in such fields as manual training, natural science, and language-teaching by conversation were copied throughout the nation. But with success, Horace Mann settled down as more of a proving ground for tried methods than a laboratory for new ones...
...about the boy who went home triumphantly with an "A in sandpile." But doctors, lawyers, professors, writers and middling prosperous intellectuals lined up to send their kids to Lincoln. As more & more of them paid out Lincoln's high (current top: $600 a year) tuition, Lincoln-like Horace Mann-settled down into its once-new ways...
...save money, Teachers College merged Lincoln and Horace Mann in 1943. The result was a comparatively un-daring, scholastically successful prep school which trained an intelligent, prosperous few for college. Teachers College decided that it could spend Mr. Rockefeller's $3,000,000 better on public schools, many of which were eager to experiment, and whose students were more representative. Horace Mann-Lincoln will shut next year unless parents can take it over and move it somewhere else. Said the school's executive director: "It's just one of those tragedies...
...indignant mass meetings the school's Barents thought it was more than that. Cried P.T.A. President Mrs. Louis Gimbel Jr.: "Teachers College is just making a monkey of itself." But Horace Mann-Lincoln's bright, progressively educated pupils took a calmer view. Said one: 'There's nothing particularly special about...