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Prussian-born Judge Prince has always had friends who couldn't let music alone either. In 1927 he gathered a few of them together in his Harlem apartment. When the neighbors and Mrs. Prince objected, Judge Prince moved his weekly rehearsals to a public-school building...
...spry Detroit public-school teacher who stepped up one day last week to receive her master's degree at Detroit's Wayne University was well up in her 60s ; she had been studying for the degree evenings and surnmers for 15 years...
...Washington; 2) Forest Ray Moulton, 73, Ph.D., LL.D., twice Sc.D., secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 3) Elton J. Moulton, 57, M.A., Ph.D., onetime dean of the graduate school and now head of the mathematics department at Northwestern University; 4) Earl L. Moulton, 66, onetime public-school teacher and now president of two companies; and 5) Vernon V. Moulton, president of an insurance company and a trustee of Albion College...
Chicagoans have learned to put up with many a civic stench, but by September, 1944, some of them could no longer stand the smell of their public-school administration. They called on the National Education Association, lumbering but potent watchdog representing some 900,000 U.S. teachers, to investigate. But when N.E.A.'s investigators appeared, they were brusquely told to devote themselves instead "to making some contribution to the war and defense effort." For the first time anywhere, N.E.A. was barred from public school records and classes...
Trying something new, the Board last week placed an initial order for 600,000 new books for public-school children (sample authors: Mark Twain, Stevenson, Dickens, O. Henry) with eye-catching illustrations drawn mostly by the children themselves. These will be distributed free to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade pupils, to keep for their very...