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...from the mouth of the Orinoco to Maracaibo, but nearly two-thirds of them live in Caracas, where they help to create an atmosphere of hustle and bustle rare in Latin America. From the equator to the Rio Grande, Venezuela is the only country where well-paid Europeans perform manual labor. Hard-working Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese dig ditches, pour concrete, lay bricks, hammer nails. The immigrants seldom fool around on the job; when it rains, they don slickers and keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude, and radio programs...
Even back in 1892-93 when I attended what was then called the Throop Polytechnic Institute at Pasadena, Calif., the laboratories and manual-training shops outnumbered the classrooms about five to one. I had one grievance: after the professor had given me high marks on my lab notes, they passed under the sharp eyes of the English teacher, and she would sentence me to an hour every afternoon for two weeks among the short-pants boys in the prep department to learn how to spell. I wonder if they still do that...
...Yell Leader. As a towheaded toddler, Goodie never had to be urged to climb up on a chair and sing or recite for guests. When he reached Manual Arts High School, Goodie swam in his natural element. There was plenty of competition (among his class of 1915: General Jimmy Doolittle, Frank Capra, Lawrence Tibbett, former Lieutenant Governor Buron Fitts), but Goodie rose like a bubble in a glass of beer to the head of the class. He was yell leader, composer of school songs, star of the debating team, an enthusiastic member of the glee club and the dramatic society...
Even seventh graders, according to the teachers' manual, can be brought to understanding that "they share sin with all mankind." Throughout the course of the year they may be brought back again and again to the realization that fear, deceit, stubbornness and disobedience all stem from self-concern and self-will. "Then they will be ready for the knowledge that this is what we mean by 'original...
...economic poverty have led him to lose contact with the soil and trouble of village life and to veer toward the political left. The proposed Mutual Service Program would put responsibility squarely on two hundred students at Delhi and provide them with enough money for manual service during vacations, as well as village surveys and seminars during the school year. This is hardly charity; it is not even "helping others to help themselves," in the language of Point Four; it is, rather, a new and more acceptable concept--helping others to help others...