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Your Cinema reviewer owes apologies to the hundreds of thousands of dedicated public-school teachers who plan to go on "breathing chalk dust for 30 years...
...Anthony Eden was born there in June 1897, the third son of irascible Sir William Eden, an eccentric country gentleman who detested children and barking dogs with equal enthusiasm. At Eton, Anthony played a straight bat and pulled a respectable oar; then, like so many of Britain's public-school boys of his day, he went off to fight in Flanders...
...denounced as "constitutionally objectionable" the weekly nondenominational devotional meetings held by pupils at the high school in Roswell (pop. 25,000). Argued Robinson: "Church and state must be kept separate ... [In Roswell], the students know that on Wednesday morning at 8:15, religious services will be held upon their public-school grounds. Their principal has so announced on Tuesday . . . That there is no direct duty to attend may not be an answer [to the question of legality...
...gradual desegregation. "Some day," said he last week, "curious and shocked Americans will ask history and each other who were these angry and fearful people who reacted so unwisely to a doubtful threat as to be willing to relinquish to politicians the decision as to whether their hard-gained public-school systems would endure or die . . . Neither do we believe that any county's school system should be permitted to be abolished by a simple majority of the legislature. Man and boy, we've seen too often how simple that majority...
...high school embarked on a retreat from solid learning? Absolutely, says Classicist John Francis Latimer of George Washington University. Latimer feels that he has evidence to prove his point. Among the results of a poll he took of 104 public-school systems in 44 states...