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Swarthmore,* which last week began celebrating its centennial year, was founded by the liberal Hicksite Quakers to combat "a dead level of mediocrity in the education of our children." For a while it was best known as "the Quaker matchbox," a 300-acre playground for sowing Quaker oats and finding Quaker mates. But ever since the 1920s, when pioneering President Frank Aydelotte set the matchbox on intellectual fire, Swarthmoreans have won all sorts of academic honors...
...construct and requires the additional expense of upkeep and maintenance. The Forman court, if damaged or worn bare, can be replaced easily square by square. The new surface is already considered so successful that Manhattan's Little Red School House is currently interested in installing an outdoor vinyl playground, and other schools are considering using the surface in their indoor play areas to avoid splinters and skinned knees...
...they live, how they battle with nature and how they prepare their food. It will be very interesting to live among these courageous people." Then it was off to romp in the snow, pose for photographers on a sled and zip down a children's playground slide on a rug. "I want to tell you the same thing I tell Cuban children," he cooed to a bevy of Russian towheads. "Learn well, and master knowledge so as to set an example to all the children of the world...
Symbol of Revolution. In 1963, the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that coalition of conscience ineradicably changed the course of U.S. life. Nineteen million Negro citizens forced the nation to take stock of itself-in the Congress as in the corporation, in factory and field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
...three-story red brick structure is the only building in the area which has yet to be condemned or razed. It is surrounded by a field of tall weeds, shells of partially demolished buildings, and a run-down playground...