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Computation Manual...
Although Monro and his operations committee are still working on a formula for the computation of need which will be suitable on a nation-wide basis, the Service will also offer temporary help in this capacity. It will send each school a manual for computation based on the Harvard system, which participants...
...teacher-turned-adman (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), he has become convinced that education pays too little attention to imagination, and he has taken it upon himself to do something about it. Last year he wrote a textbook called Applied Imagination (Scribner; $3.75). drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course as a bit on the brash side, he has managed to chalk up an impressive record. His ideas have been...
Driver's Manual. In Lake Orion, Mich., after thieves had already taken three hubcaps from Mrs. John MacLeod's car, she found a note on the front seat: "Don't drive too fast because we swiped your...
With that storm passed. Stoddard found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually...