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Ranging in age from two-and-a-half to four, they are all enrolled in the Harvard Preschool, a nursery school for demonstration and experimentation established by the Graduate School of Education. The school as housed in three squat quonset huts surrounded by a playground at 5 Kirkland Place...
Founded in 1950, the Preschool now serves a three-fold purpose. First is its service to the community, Seventy-two children from every sort of family background attend its twice-daily sessions, 45 in the morning group and 20 during the afternoon. Second is the valuable teaching practice it provides for graduate students in the Education School's division of early childhood education. Its third function is as a research ground for the Laboratory of Human Development and the Social Relations Department...
Director of the Preschool is Julia A. Schoellkopf, a Sarah Lawrence Alumna who also teaches courses in early childhood education. Most of the school's children come from Cambridge, and are off-spring of parents with some University connection, either as students or faculty, predominate. Teachers hope the school can get more children from non-academic backgrounds. Scholarship funds are available for children whose families cannot meet the 200 dollar yearly tuition...
Long Knives. Last week hill farmers (growers of coffee, sugar and corn) and their wives crowded into Marsella, taking their preschool children for inoculations. All wore their Sunday best, the women in bright yellow, green or blue rayon dresses with black shawls, most of them in sneakers instead of sandals, and the men in white capes or ponchos and carrying long, narrow-bladed machetes...
...Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 32,000) were having their heads examined last week. And with good reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...