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Eric Carle, author and illustrator of children’s books including perennial best-seller “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” spoke at the Graduate School of Education last Thursday. Now 81 years old, he recounted stories from his childhood in Germany during World War II and the role of that “world of grey” in forming his love for color. FM caught up with Carle for a few questions...
This year, the two have not slowed their pace, and most recently they helped the No. 4 heavyweights win the Adams Cup versus No. 16 Navy and No. 18 Princeton. Their old high school rivalry has given way to an easy rapport...
...Both of his older brothers played, so he was always following in their footsteps,” his dad, Phil Cohen, said. “He started at a very young age when he was five years old. He was always the ball boy or water boy for the teams they were on. He would always try to get in there and play ball with them and be on their level, but obviously he couldn’t at such a young...
...House became informal confessionals. Upon the peeling white paint of the swinging doors, students—female, one could assume—scribbled their fears, phobias, and questions in different colors. Layers of writing collected on top of the paint: words overlapped, private exclamations collided with sober questions, and old inscriptions faded as fresh ones took their place. Some of the writing is admittedly frivolous—of the gas station variety—but most of the scribbles reveal deeply personal thoughts and concerns, the sort of intimate details reserved for the best of friends...
Others have tried to catalyze action with mixed results. As a cabin counselor for fifth graders, I was once the target of an elaborate scheme by my 10-year-old campers who moved our cabin clock 15 minutes forward while I was sleeping. They were tired of getting to arts and crafts after all the good popsicle sticks had been claimed...