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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter Laradon Hall opened its doors with but one entrance requirement: the ability to learn, however slowly. Soon 17 children came-most of them thin and staring youngsters suffering from nervous instability and poor muscular control. With the children came volunteer teachers: an ex-G.I. from the University...
By last week the Denver Area Welfare Council, without whose approval no organization can get community chest funds, had recognized Laradon as a member. That was the first help Joe had had, but it might not be enough. "Sometimes when the going gets rough," says he, "I wonder if the...
The Higher Loyalty. To Layman Smith, the trend is clear, present, and dangerous: in their anxiety to adjust the child to his environment, modern educators have actually forgotten the child for the environment. As the American Association of School Administrators put it in its own brand of pedagoguese, education should...
To Smith, there is something faintly "unAmerican" about making collective society so all-important. To him, the most important aspect of education is "just that intellectual and moral development of the person as a person which these educators believe is now outmoded." But Smith also found another tyrant besides society...
...Navy owned up last week to having an airplane, the Douglas D558-II Skyrocket, that has flown faster than sound "many times." Like the Air Force's pioneering XI, the Navy's Skyrocket is a rocket plane. But the X-I is intended to be dropped at high altitude from a B29, while the Skyrocket takes off under its own power. Inside its slim body is a powerful turbojet engine as well as the rocket motor. The turbojet is used first (with rocket assist at takeoff), to get the plane to high altitude. Then the rocket motor pushes...