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Although Czechoslovakia became a republic soon after the War-when it was created out of detached fragments of neighboring monarchies-its school system was not made over until a decade later. The agent of that change was a clean-shaven, energetic, gesticulating educator. Dr. Vaclav Príhoda, 45, who studied at Columbia's Teachers College and the University of Chicago, the two great springs of modern educational ideas in the U. S. He returned to Czechoslovakia with a burning zeal for the educational theories of Philosopher John Dewey...
...where schools are controlled by local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...
...Vive l' Amérique!", "Vive Monsieur le Président!" echoed in the cobbled streets as Mr. Hoover, accompanied S. Pinkney Tuck, today U. S. Embassy Counselor at Brussels and in Paris often host to the Duchess of Windsor when she was Mrs. Simpson, drove into Lille. Day before, Mr. Hoover had informed correspondents that he was off on a swing through Europe. Asked if he intended to gather political information firsthand, he replied, smiling: "I intend to look and listen...
...ballet? Mr. Justice Luxmoore held that it could, especially since he learned that the design of a ballet, with its successions of pirouettes, entrechats and other steps, is commonly recorded on paper. In the case of the ballets Massine had done while in de Basil's employ (Les Présages, Chorearthim, Cimarosiana, Cantes Russes), de Basil was entitled to an option. Massine retained exclusive rights to the popular Three-Cornered Hat (music by de Falla), Beau Danube (Strauss), La Boutique Fantasque (Rossini), designed prior to the de Basil connection...
...review of Malcolm Muggeridge's The Earnest Atheist (TIME, March 8) gives an excellent précis of the book, which is an attack on the integrity of Samuel Butler. Because it is an attack, and there are many people who believe in Butler's integrity, I feel that some account should have been given of his virtues and some correction made of Muggeridge's misstatements...