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Have U. S. schools been corrupted by newfangled ideas? Yes, cries many a tough-minded oldster. No, snorted the No. 1 U. S. school efficiency expert last week -they are not even up to date. The expert, trim, white-haired Professor Paul R. Mort of Columbia University's Teachers College, after a three-year study of 344 schools, reported his findings in American Schools in Transition (Bureau of Publica tions, Teachers College...
...Mort and a research associate, Francis G. Cornell, made up a list of 183 things that most educators, conservative and progressive, agree a modern school system should do. (Samples: public kindergartens, junior high schools, classes for slow pu pils.) Then they investigated how many were practiced in representative public schools, rich & poor, urban & rural, big & small, in Pennsylvania (considered the best cross section of the U. S.). Findings...
...French grandmother, Mère, who had to sit day & night strapped in a chair so that she could breathe. "One night [Mère] woke suffocating. Mother said: 'It will be all right, it will pass. . . .' But Mère gasped: 'C'est la mort.' Mother leaned to her and whispered: 'Tu n'as pas peur?' Mère steadied herself on the arms of her chair and said distinctly and firmly...
Dick Harlow has announced the his starting lineup will be the same as the one which played most of the Princeton game, with the exception of Joe Gardella's fullback post. Bill Brown and Mort Waldstein are rated even as understudies for the Harvard leader, and weather conditions will determine who gets the starting call tomorrow. Gardella has been ruled out of any action against the Quakers, according to latest medical reports...
...Mort Waldstein and Bill Brown will have to plug the hole left at the bucking role when a Princeton game charley horse put the Crimson captain on the shelf. MacKinney will play as much as he can Saturday at left end, with Bill Barnes spelling him off. The versatile Chapel Hill Junior will not be used at quarterback unless George Helden is hurt...