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Investigators last week told New York City that its public-school system needed a thorough cleaning up. For one thing, there were "no soap, no towels, no hot water" for 884,300 pupils. But the investigators also said no soap to the system's whole administrative structure. To the city they suggested bargain possibilities : improved schools at a saving of more than $52,000,000 (over five years...
...painter, studied at the Chicago Art Institute and at Manhattan's Art Students League, where she was known as "Patsy." A winter of painting as her teachers taught it convinced her that she could not paint at all. She worked as a commercial artist in Chicago, a public-school art supervisor in Amarillo, Tex. She calls Texas "the only place I ever felt really at home...
When the New York Legislature in 1842 created a board of 34 school commissioners, two from each of the city's 17 wards, to launch New York City's public-school system, there were 47,390 pupils and 115 free schools (previously conducted by a group of citizens called the Public School Society). Today, with 761 schools, 974,420 pupils, 34.393 teachers and an annual budget of some $150,000,000, greater than many a nation's total income, the system is one of the wonders of the world: >Its buildings range from one-room schoolhouses...
...boys (preferably ten to 13 years old) will be nominated by public-school principals. Headmaster Hill will choose the five winners by simple criteria : they must be well-balanced emotionally, possess out standing aptitude in some, particular field...
Remember the Day (20th Century-Fox) is a belated bow to the public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...