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...parochial schools had raised a small but ominous cloud. Said fiery Professor George S. Counts of Columbia's Teachers College at a convention of the Progressive Education Association in Manhattan: "I think that is a very dangerous and vicious recommendation, an entering wedge to destroy the public-school system...
Under selected public-school teachers who must be able to keep their poise when the children flash bits of unfamiliar information on them, the pupils are covering the regular school curriculum (minus reading, in which they need no instruction) in one-half the normal time. Thus they are free to spend the rest of the day investigating things the elementary public-school child seldom learns-French, poetry, music appreciation (via radio) and are doing independent research into such common aspects of civilization as lighting, transportation. Ninety per cent read newspapers daily, discourse on the Chinese war and the Roosevelt fiscal...
...Oxford, was appointed an Army schoolmaster during the War when faulty eyesight barred him from active service. After the War, he learned the publishing business thoroughly with the Ernest Benn tradepapers, branched out on his own in 1927. First Gollancz book was John Van Druten's poignant public-school play, Young Woodley. First Gollancz success was another play of public-school heroics...
...efficient headwaitresses who quietly preside over our eating-halls and if you are tactfully persistent she will show you where this group eats every day or what hour that coterie file in and take their seats at their favorite table by the window. She will point out where the public-school boys customarily sit, and where the St. Groticsex boys disport themselves. She will tell you that she has seen individual units of these disparate sects thrown together at the same table, quite frequently, but that she has never, from one year to the next, seen them introduce themselves...
...among the new faces that of Author Leane Zugsmith. Her fourth novel, The Reckoning, is a book of such competent maturity that it qualifies her automatically for a place in the second rank. In the regimental line her position is a little left of centre. Carolyn was a public-school teacher in a tough quarter of Manhattan. Intelligent, honest, fairly good at her racking job, she was engaged but not happy. Oliver was a poverty-and ambition-ridden lawyer who haunted the Criminal Courts Building, grimly determined to get ahead without truckling to Tammany. Metropolitan coincidence brought them tragically together...